Officials in Alaska rushed Tuesday to evacuate and find housing for people from tiny coastal villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

Flooding caused by the remnants of Typhoon Halong destroyed countless homes and displaced more than 2,000 people living along Alaska’s west coast this week, according to the Red Cross.

Mark Roberts, State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) incident commander, said in a statement that many homes impacted by the storm “cannot be reoccupied, even with emergency repairs,” noting that “i...