Disaster Declaration

The Board of Missoula County Commissioners issued an official disaster declaration on Wednesday morning

After declaring a flood emergency in late April, the Clark Fork, Bitterroot and Blackfoot Rivers have flooded and hundreds of thousands of county dollars have been expended, so Missoula County Commissioners officially declared a disaster on Thursday morning, making way for state aid.

Missoula officials just days away from declaring a flooding disaster for the county, which would trigger more state aid.

The Missoula County Office of Emergency Management made an emergency declaration at the end of April in anticipation of the high waters they knew would be coming.