Nevada to receive $5.4 million in FEMA reimbursement for Davis Fire costs

The Federal Emergency Management Agency volition reimburse Nevada much than $5.4 cardinal successful authorities and region wealth spent warring the Davis Fire, the bureau of U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said this morning.

The wildfire successful September 2024 burned astir 6,000 acres successful bluish Nevada, destroyed 13 residential structures and outgo millions of dollars to suppress.

The FEMA wealth covers 75% of what the Nevada Division of Forestry, the Truckee Meadows Water Authority and Washoe County spent warring the fire.

The Division of Forestry volition person astir $4.86 million, Washoe County astir $371,035 and the h2o authorization astir $167,054, her bureau said.

Cortez Masto’s bureau said she pushed for the backing truthful firefighting costs would beryllium paid backmost to Nevada and the authorities could proceed its occurrence suppression and prevention work.

“Thanks to the tireless efforts of Nevada’s brave wildland firefighters and National Guardsmen, nary lives were mislaid successful the Davis Fire and thousands of homes were saved,” Cortez Masto, D-Nev., said successful a statement. “But warring a wildfire of that standard had a precocious outgo for our state.”