Watch footage of Asheville, North Carolina, before and after Helene's devastation

Aerial photographs document the extent of Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic impact on Asheville, North Carolina.

Across the Southeast, the storm has killed at least 200 people since its historic landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Sept. 27. Nearly a million homes and businesses in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and Virginia are without power, while thousands remain without running water, mostly in western North Carolina.

Helene is the fourth deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since 1950 and the deadliest since Katrina, which killed 1,392 people in 2005.

The death toll in Buncombe County, which includes Asheville, North Carolina, rose from 61 to 72 people on Thursday, Sheriff Quentin Miller confirmed in a news conference. At least 108 deaths have been reported across North Carolina.

The system reached the city of nearly 100,000 as a tropical storm, dumping torrential rains that destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged roads.

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The county provides meals and water with daily limits

Buncombe County officials are providing ready-to-eat meals and bottled water with a daily limit of two meal packages per adult and one per child. Residents have access to water for flushing toilets at a distribution point on Tuesdays and Fridays.

President Joe Biden flew over Asheville on Wednesday to witness the devastation and visited Greenville, South Carolina. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided more than $6.2 million to victims in North Carolina, while the Biden administration is offering more than $20 million to Helene survivors across the Southeast.

The North Carolina National Guard transported 12 aircraft pallets containing more than 100,000 pounds of food and over 38,000 pounds of water to Asheville, according to a news release from the Biden-Harris administration on Thursday.

Insurers and forecasters have predicted that Helene’s damage across the region will cost between $15 billion and $100 billion.

Donations for Helene relief efforts

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Contribution: Asheville Citizen-Times, John Bacon, Zachary Huber, Jorge L. Ortiz, Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY

This story has been updated to add new information.

Watch footage of Asheville, North Carolina, before and after Helene’s devastation

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The county provides meals and water with daily limits

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