WV officials count steep flood costs, consider recovery concerns amid FEMA turmoil

WV officials count steep flood costs, consider recovery concerns amid FEMA turmoil

West Virginia officials counted steep costs and reported lingering recovery efforts to state lawmakers at a Joint Legislative Flooding Committee meeting on Dec. 9, 2025. At the meeting, presentations from heads of the West Virginia Department of Transportation and West Virginia Emergency Management Division demonstrating the massive and potentially soon-to-grow liabilities the flood-prone state’s taxpayers bear amid Federal Emergency Management …