FEMA Disaster Declarations (every federally declared disaster since 1953)

Dataset · Federal Emergency Management Agency · primary source ↗

Every FEMA-declared disaster — 70k declared-area records covering 4,500 unique disaster numbers across DR (major disaster), EM (emergency), and FM (fire management) declarations. Each row: disaster number, FEMA declaration string (EM-3610-PR), state, designated area (county/municipality), incident type, declaration date, IA/IH/PA/HM program flags, FIPS codes, region. Canonical /disaster/{number} pages aggregate Public Assistance + Hazard Mitigation totals.

Source agency
Federal Emergency Management Agency
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
70,000 area declarations (4,500 disasters)
API endpoint

Keywords

FEMA disasterdisaster declarationHurricane KatrinaHurricane SandyCOVID disasterFEMA regionemergency declaration

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://www.fema.gov/openfema-data-page/disaster-declarations-summaries-v2. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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