BATON ROUGE, La. (September 28, 2012)--Hurricane Isaac damaged nearly 59,000 homes across southeast Louisiana, more than four times the number officials estimated a week after the storm made landfall on Aug. 28.
The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said the most severe damage to houses and rental units was in St. John the Baptist and Plaquemines parishes, where flooding swamped some homes with several feet of water.
The latest estimates are for 46,663 owner-occupied houses and 12,289 rental units.
The damage data come from door-to-door inspections of more than 120,000 homes by the Federal Emergency Management Agency after people registered for federal aid.
The Category 1 storm was relatively weak and most of the damage came from flooding.
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