Tim Bazar stands on the back deck of his flooded house Friday, March 22, 2019, in Bellevue, Neb.

(Kent Sievers-/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

At a Glance

More than 580 homes have been tagged as uninhabitable in Bellevue and Fremont.Both towns are in areas heavily damaged by flooding last month. Damage in Nebraska is estimated at $1.4 billion.

Bright red notices adorn the doors of more than in two Omaha suburbs. The tags mark the homes as uninhabitable, and provide a snapshot of the destruction wrought by last month's record flooding across the Midwest and Great Plains.

The homes are in Fremont, a suburb on the Platte River about 38 miles west of Omaha, and Bellevue, which sits just south of the city on the Missouri River and adjacent to the heavily-damaged Offutt Air Force Base.

“We have red-tagged inside the city limits,” Brian Newton, Fremont’s city administrator, told the Omaha World-Herald. “The rest are outside of the city. Some have structural problems and some not. They all have their electricity shut off.”

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Jim Ristow, city administrator of Bellevue, told the paper there more than 300 homes in his jurisdiction with red tags, plus several businesses that have yet to be evaluated.

A red tag means a building has suffered significant damage and is deemed uninhabitable by inspectors. Owners will have to consult with county officials before they can make any repairs or rebuild. If the damage exceed's half the home's value, extensive modifications to the property may be required.

“They might have to raise the property up or make some other adjustment,” Newton said in the World Herald report. "FEMA does not want the properties to be repeatedly flooded.”

Nebraska suffered an estimated $1.4 billion in damage from the massive flooding, and damage in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri is expected to add another $2 billion to the region's tally. Some communities may not have for six months, and the are devastating the region's farmers.

Bob Henson, a meteorologist for weather.com, said today that precipitation is in the forecast again for the Omaha region.

"An incoming storm could bring more than an inch of rain to the Bellevue and Fremont areas around the middle of next week," Henson said.