The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved more than $1.8 million in aid for individual Tennesseans affected by severe storms in April, according to the agency.
As of Wednesday, FEMA approved 206 individual assistance applications, totaling around $948,000 in housing assistance and $871,000 in assistance for other needs.
The individual assistance funding is in addition to public assistance funds approved to help local governments pay for repairs to public property and infrastructure.
President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration for some Tennessee counties on June 20, more than two months after Gov. Bill Lee requested federal assistance to recover from destructive tornadoes and once-in-a-generation flooding.
The early April storms severely damaged an estimated 300 homes and 14 businesses or nonprofits and killed 10 people. McNairy County’s emergency management agency estimated that an EF-3 tornado that hit Selmer, the county seat, caused around $27.6 million in private property damage alone.