RALEIGH—The North Carolina Office of the State Auditor has introduced an online dashboard to track Hurricane Helene recovery in the state’s storm-impacted areas.
“On Day 1 the State Auditor’s Office committed to bringing transparency and accountability to hurricane recovery, and I’m proud of the work our team has done to produce the Helene Recovery Dashboard,” North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek said in a Feb. 11 press release.
On the date of Boliek’s announcement, the dashboard showed 5,767 displaced households, 2,112 of which were “housed,” 323 seeking assistance and 3,332 not seeking aid.
“This is an easy-to-navigate tool that shows how many people are in hotels and how many people are displaced, and I look forward to building it out further as North Carolina continues to recover,” said Boliek.
The Helene Recovery Dashboard tracks housing data across the hurricane-impacted region and drills down on county-level numbers. Users will be able to see the number of households displaced by the storm, as well as how many are using FEMA shelter assistance, those still seeking aid and households who are not participating in FEMA assistance.
Per Boliek’s office, the FEMA data will be updated automatically each week.
The number of Temporary Housing Units, both occupied and being procured by the state, is also included in the data.
The dashboard includes a Q&A section that draws its data and answers that were gathered by the State Auditor’s Office from the office of Gov. Josh Stein.
According to Boliek’s release, his office “is currently working with the Stein Administration on the smooth transfer of real-time data in order to keep the dashboard updated regularly.”
The dashboard can be accessed by visiting auditor.nc.gov/helene.
