Property owners affected by September flooding are eligible for property tax relief.

To be eligible for relief, they need to live in a county declared a disaster area and prove the floods made it impossible to pay their second-half property taxes.

A federal disaster declaration has been extended to eight more counties, and the state made property tax available to those counties, too. Those counties are Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Jackson, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin, Mower, Murray, Nicollet, Nobles, Olmsted, Pipestone, Redwood, Rice, Rock, Sibley, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan, Winona and Yellow Medicine counties.

More information is available at www.minnesotarecovers.org.