Monthly Archives: December 2024

In late September, Category 4 Hurricane Helene made landfall and devastated much of Western North Carolina, other parts of NC and neighboring states of Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. One of the many areas of WNC that was catastrophically affected was Avery County, which is extremely rural and mountainous, with all the county's terrain located within the Appalachian Mountains range.  Here, historic flooding and landslides were a major result of Helene.