North Carolina will receive $1.6 billion in federal grants to help rebuild communities ravaged by Helene, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Tuesday.

It has been more than three months since the storm hit North Carolina, and now state officials have released the full list of people who died during the storm.

State officials have released an updated list of the 104 people in North Carolina killed by Hurricane Helene that also includes county of death and date of death. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) provided News 13 with this new information.

Months after the storm devastated Western North Carolina, the state has released the official list of names of those who died.

North Carolina's death toll rose to 104 as a result of Hurricane Helene and the names of those who died have been released by the state

Early impacts of Helene saw the region's home sales and new listings essentially halt, but in the past few months those patterns have changed. By most metrics, the analysis has shown the market to be resilient in the face of the region's worst natural disaster.

For the second time since he took office last week, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein visited the western part of the state to survey Helene recovery efforts.

Longtime Wake County commissioner and current board chairman Matt Calabria will lead the Stein administration's Helene recovery efforts in western North Carolina. Gov. Josh Stein announced the appointment Tuesday.

Newly sworn-in Governor Josh Stein of North Carolina announces his first executive orders, focusing on Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in Western North Carolina.