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2. You can add KY to that list too

Gov. Beshear says FEMA denies assistance for 8 Kentucky counties after February flooding.


Author: Xan Dorsey
Published: 4:46 PM EDT April 23, 2025
Updated: 4:46 PM EDT April 23, 2025


KENTUCKY, USA — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced on Wednesday the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied assistance for eight Kentucky counties after severe flooding in February. FEMA denied public assistance for two counties and individual assistance for six counties affected by the February floods.

In a letter to Beshear, FEMA said “(B)ased on the results of the joint Preliminary Damage Assessments, it has been determined that the impact to the individuals and households in Butler, Franklin, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, and Whitley Counties is not of the severity and magnitude to warrant their designation under the Individual Assistance program.”

They also said the impacts to infrastructure in Simpson and Woodford counties also does not meet the "severity and magnitude" to warrant use of the public assistance program.

“While we are grateful to have gotten an Expedited Major Disaster Declaration for the February flooding, which has authorized at least some level of public assistance for local governments in 68 counties and individual assistance for Kentuckians in 16 counties, we are disappointed to receive this latest news,” Beshear said. “We are actively comparing the damage assessments, and we plan to appeal this decision.”

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Will see if Turtle and SPAWN OF RON can shake any loose.