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Alicia Roland

The Virginia Disaster Assistance Fund (VDAF) is a $50 million state program providing financial relief to Virginians whose homes, businesses, farms, or community infrastructure were destroyed or heavily damaged by Tropical Storm Helene or the February 2025 storms, and funding mitigation projects to protect against future disasters. 

The purpose of the Virginia Disaster Assistance Fund Program (“Program”) is to provide funding for disaster mitigation and relief for qualified communities and individuals to cover needs otherwise unmet by insurance, federal relief, state relief and other relief (including charities or in-kind services, construction, or reconstruction, etc.). The Program provides funding to eligible recipients for eligible activities in qualified communities. This includes assistance for individuals affected by one or both of the following two disaster events:

  • Part 1 of the Program (Disaster Recovery) addresses unmet relief and recovery needs in response to one or both of the following two disaster events:
  1. Tropical Storm Helene, being a disaster occurring on or after September 25, 2024, but before October 3, 2024, and subject to a Major Disaster Declaration (FEMA-4831-DR) issued by President Biden on October 1, 2024; and
  2. The storms occurring during the State of Emergency declared by Governor Youngkin on February 10, 2025, including, without limitation the heavy rains occurring on or around February 15 and 16, 2025.

Eligible Applicants

Eligible Applicants must have been Virginia residents in a Qualified Community (Grayson County, Smyth County, Washington County, or Wythe County) at the time of the applicable Disaster Event (Tropical Storm Helene and/or February 2025 Severe Storm) and must have owned the eligible real property or properties at the time of the applicable Disaster Event. Only owners of affected properties that were actively occupied on or at the times of the applicable Disaster Event are eligible. Ineligible applicants include property owners whose property(ies) were abandoned or uninhabited, during the time of the applicable Disaster Event, or who have acquired the property since the applicable Disaster Event. Eligible Applicants also includes owners of commercial real property and owners who lost fencing and crops as a result of a Disaster Event.

Eligible Properties

Part 1 of the Program provides relief based on damage to real property with an active use that was adversely impacted by one or more of the Disaster Events. Eligible real property must have been in active use at the time of the applicable Disaster Event and cannot have been abandoned or uninhabited.

For more information visit https://vdaf.mrpdc.org/ – email assist@VDAF.mrpdc.org, – or call 1-276-200-5110.