Mayfield Tornado

Three years to the day after an EF-4 tornado tore through Mayfield and Graves County, local officials and community members dedicated eight new homes to families that survived the disaster.

A little less than three years after a destructive, historic tornado outbreak tore through downtown Mayfield, the small western Kentucky community is still making strides towards recovery.

The city of Mayfield is getting $31.5 million dollars in federal and state grants to help rebuild roads in its downtown area that was hit hard during the 2021 tornado outbreak.

Gov. Andy Beshear detailed what he called the largest housing announcement in the history of the Commonwealth on Monday, which he said will go toward building nearly 1,000 rental housing units in four western Kentucky counties that were heavily impacted by the December 2021 tornado outbreak.

A House shell bill was changed in a committee Monday afternoon to move millions of dollars from disaster relief funds into rebuilding projects in Eastern and Western Kentucky.

A historic Mayfield hotel that has stood in the far western Kentucky city’s court square for nearly a century will soon be demolished.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved nearly $1.4 million in recovery funding to aid in the construction of a new city hall and police department in Mayfield.

The Mayfield-Graves County Long Term Recovery Group updated community partners Tuesday about ongoing recovery efforts more than two years after the area was hit by a deadly and historic tornado outbreak.

A newly released oral history project documents memories of the December 10, 2021 EF-4 tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky, from the perspectives of survivors – and shares their stories of recovering from the historic disaster.

A historic Black church in the heart of downtown Mayfield is still recovering nearly two years after being hit by a devastating EF-4 tornado.