The Nine Declared Parishes

Map of Louisiana with the nine Hurricane Francine declared parishes highlighted.
Francine declared parishes Source: FEMA DR-4817-LA · Restore Louisiana
  • Ascension
  • Assumption
  • Jefferson
  • Lafourche
  • St. Charles
  • St. James
  • St. John the Baptist
  • St. Mary
  • Terrebonne

Why Adams Industries Fits Francine Recovery

The Francine-affected parishes run along Louisiana's coast and the bayou country south of Baton Rouge. That's our service area. We've been doing residential and commercial work in this geography for twenty years and we know which subs hold up after a Gulf storm, which parishes process permits at what speed, and how to keep a project moving when materials are short. Same crew, same supervisor, same phone number from estimate to final draw.

The Program in Plain Steps

  1. Survey. The first step was always the program survey at restore.la.gov. The deadline was June 30, 2025. If you completed it, you're in the pool.
  2. Environmental review. Federally required. Inspectors look at the property from the road; no appointment.
  3. Application. Qualified homeowners are invited to apply in phases. The application is the long form with the documentation.
  4. Eligibility review. The program checks your application against third-party sources. They may ask for supporting documents.
  5. Damage and lead assessment. Scheduled appointment. Inspectors document what's been done and what remains, and they test for lead paint on homes built before 1978.
  6. Award determination. You get a calculated grant award, net of any duplication of benefits from FEMA, insurance, SBA, or charitable aid. You have 60 days to accept or appeal.
  7. Contractor selection. If you choose to pick your own Louisiana-licensed contractor (the program's contractor-managed path), that's where we come in.
  8. Grant agreement. Closing team, signatures, grant execution date set. The 180-day construction-start clock starts ticking here.
  9. Construction. Begin within 180 days. Up to five progress draws, each tied to an inspection. Finish within 365.

What Francine Homeowners Should Have Ready

If you're getting close to picking a contractor, it helps if you have:

  • Your award letter from the Hurricane Francine Homeowner Assistance Program
  • The Estimated Cost of Repairs (ECR) the program produced for your home
  • Your FEMA registration number and the inspection report
  • Any insurance settlement paperwork, including duplication-of-benefits documentation
  • Your grant execution date — that's the clock on the 180-day construction-start rule
  • A working list of what you'd like done so we can flag anything that would fall outside the ECR

If you don't have all of that yet, call anyway. We can walk through where you are in the process and what the next step looks like.

What a Francine Recovery Project Looks Like with Us

  1. Initial call and site walk. Free. We meet you at the property, review the ECR, and talk through the scope against what the program will actually fund.
  2. Project Plan. We draft a timeline and a five-draw schedule aligned to the ECR. You review, we revise, both sides sign.
  3. Program submission. The Project Plan goes into the program file. We wait on grant execution.
  4. Construction start. Inside the 180-day window from grant execution. We document the first milestone so the program inspector can certify progress.
  5. Progress draws. Up to five, each tied to an inspection and paid as a two-party check to you and us jointly, after your homeowner-responsibility funds are exhausted.
  6. Completion. Inside the 365-day window. Final walk-through with you, final program inspection, close-out paperwork.

The Honest Notes

  • No advance payments. The program does not permit them and we will not ask.
  • The ECR is the ceiling, not the menu. If you want work above the ECR, that's a separate project paid directly. Upgrades are a separate conversation we are happy to have.
  • Projects under $50,000 in remaining repairs may use a certified home improvement contractor. We hold the full general contractor license, so we cover both paths.
  • Change orders are written and pre-approved. Anything outside the original scope goes through the program with supporting documentation before any work happens on site.
  • Duplication of benefits comes off first. Federal law requires it. Your homeowner-responsibility amount has to be fully invested in eligible repairs before program funds release.

How This Program Differs from the 2020-21 Program

If you've been through the prior Restore Louisiana program (Hurricanes Laura, Delta, Zeta, Ida, or the May 2021 storms), the structure here is the same but the program is legally separate. New policy manual (RLHP-24), new action plan, new survey, new application, new awards. The contractor-managed path the state calls Solution 2 works on nearly identical mechanics: licensed contractor, ECR ceiling, 180/365 timeline, up to five draws, no advance. The thresholds and small-project rules differ slightly between programs. We can walk through both if your situation crosses programs.

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