DES MOINES, Iowa ( Iowa Capital Dispatch ) - An estimated 2.67 million trees in Iowa forests and another 4.4 million trees in urban canopies were killed or damaged by the 2020 Midwest derecho that swept across Iowa, according to a new data tool from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Twenty-seven Iowa counties were given a disaster declaration at the time because of destruction from the Aug. 10 derecho. The data tool shows how Iowa state parks, cities, forests and communities have recovered from the destruction over the past five years and how many of those damaged trees have been replanted.

A derecho is a long-lived, straight-line windstorm that damages wide swathes of land. The event in 2020 caused more than 770 miles of damage through Iowa, primarily in central and east-c

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