While crops in other parts of Iowa are doing well, some farm fields in northwest Iowa remain under water, and fences have been washed away. Damage assessments begin.

Gov. Kim Reynolds has issued a disaster proclamation for 27 Iowa counties, and an expedited Presidential Disaster Declaration has been approved after widespread flooding and severe storms inundated much of the state in late June.

Parts of northwest Iowa re­ceived up to 15 inches of rain over two days, damaging more than 2,000 properties and prompting emergency evacuations.  

Flooding during the June 20-23 weekend was the result of heavy rains, overflowing rivers and dam and levy breaches that overwhelmed...