Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way. Here Are 5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane.

Hurricane Helene caused more inland deaths than any hurricane in recorded history.

The highest per capita death toll occurred in Yancey County , a rural expanse in the rugged Black Mountains of North Carolina .

Some counties in harm’s way issued evacuation orders; others did not.

ProPublica: North Carolina does not require training for local emergency managers.

The U.S. Geological Survey has so far identified 2,015 Helene-induced landslides across western North Carolina .

North Carolina legislators passed a law requiring that landslide hazards be mapped across 19 mountain counties.

But a few years later , after only four of those counties were mapped, lawmakers halted the program.