Beadle, Clark, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Sanborn and Spink counties included
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PIERRE — South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem requested a Presidential Disaster Declaration on Wednesday to help South Dakotans and local governmental entities recover from property damage sustained during the statewide winter weather and flooding this spring.
The request is for FEMA assistance to help with repairs for damage done to both public property as well as to individual homes and businesses. A preliminary damage assessment indicates about $43 million in damage to public infrastructure in 58 counties and on three reservations. The preliminary damage assessment for individual assistance is about $3 million covering 16 counties and three reservations.
Public property damage assistance is being requested for the Heartland counties of Beadle, Clark, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Sanborn and Spink
Individual damage assistance is being requested for more than a dozen counties, including Kingsbury, as well as the Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge, and Rosebud Indian Reservations.
In a letter to President Trump, Noem wrote that “a historic severe winter storm of rare intensity” began in South Dakota March 13. She said the snow was followed by a rapid snowmelt and flooding. The severe weather continued through April 26.