Alabama: Federal Disaster Declarations

Name: Alabama FEMA disaster declarations (FY2000 to FY2025)
Creator: Disaster Data

Alabama has recorded 54 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 41 major disasters, 11 emergencies, and 2 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #22 nationally by total declarations.

Totals: FY2000–FY2025 · Page last rebuilt Sep 12, 2026 · the current in-progress fiscal year is not included in totals

Declarations since FY2000

Major disasters (DR)

Emergencies (EM)

Fire management (FM)

Declaration requests denied

8.5%

Declaration-request denial rate

#22

National rank by declarations

30.5

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Severe Storm 28
Hurricane 19
Biological 4
Fire 2
Tornado 1

All declarations on record

DR = Major disaster (Stafford Act) · EM = Emergency declaration · FM = Fire management assistance

Showing 54 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Sep 26, 2024	EM-3618-AL	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Helene
May 5, 2023	DR-4710-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Tornadoes
Jan 15, 2023	DR-4684-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Tornadoes
Dec 21, 2021	DR-4632-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Apr 26, 2021	DR-4596-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Tornadoes
Mar 28, 2021	DR-4591-AL	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Dec 10, 2020	DR-4573-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Zeta
Sep 20, 2020	DR-4563-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Sally
Sep 14, 2020	EM-3545-AL	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Sally
Jul 10, 2020	DR-4555-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Thunderstorms
Jul 10, 2020	DR-4554-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Tornadoes
May 21, 2020	DR-4546-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Mar 29, 2020	DR-4503-AL	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3472-AL	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3528-AL	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Apr 17, 2019	DR-4426-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Mar 5, 2019	DR-4419-AL	DR	Tornado	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Tornadoes
Nov 5, 2018	DR-4406-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Michael
Oct 12, 2018	EM-3407-AL	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Michael
Apr 26, 2018	DR-4362-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Tornadoes
Nov 16, 2017	DR-4349-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Nate
Oct 8, 2017	EM-3394-AL	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Nate
Sep 11, 2017	EM-3389-AL	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irma
Jan 21, 2016	DR-4251-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
May 2, 2014	DR-4176-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Sep 21, 2012	DR-4082-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Isaac
Feb 1, 2012	DR-4052-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Apr 28, 2011	DR-1971-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Apr 27, 2011	EM-3319-AL	EM	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Straight-Line Winds
May 3, 2010	DR-1908-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Dec 31, 2009	DR-1870-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Dec 22, 2009	DR-1866-AL	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Ida
Jun 3, 2009	DR-1842-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, And Straight-Line Winds
May 8, 2009	DR-1836-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Tornadoes, And Straight-Line Winds
Apr 28, 2009	DR-1835-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Tornadoes & Straight-Line
Sep 26, 2008	DR-1797-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding Associated With Hurricane Ike
Sep 10, 2008	DR-1789-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Gustav
Aug 30, 2008	EM-3292-AL	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Gustav
Mar 3, 2007	DR-1687-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Tornadoes
Sep 10, 2005	EM-3237-AL	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Aug 29, 2005	DR-1605-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina
Aug 28, 2005	EM-3214-AL	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina
Jul 10, 2005	DR-1593-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Dennis
Sep 15, 2004	DR-1549-AL	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Ivan
May 12, 2003	DR-1466-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Nov 14, 2002	DR-1442-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Tornadoes
Oct 9, 2002	DR-1438-AL	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Isidore
Dec 7, 2001	DR-1399-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Tornadoes
Nov 20, 2001	FM-2395-AL	FM	Fire	Al - North East Alabama Fire Complex - 11/20/2001
Mar 5, 2001	DR-1362-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Dec 18, 2000	DR-1352-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Tornadoes
Sep 17, 2000	FM-2339-AL	FM	Fire	Al - County Line Fire - 09/17/2000
Mar 17, 2000	DR-1322-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Feb 18, 2000	DR-1317-AL	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storms

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Alabama, combined across the Housing Assistance owner and renter programs. Valid registrations are households that applied within a designated Individual Assistance area; approved figures are those FEMA found eligible under the Individuals and Households Program. Self-reported, drawn from NEMIS through OpenFEMA, and present only where Individual Assistance was designated.

545,009

Valid registrations

244,662

Households approved

$705M

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$248M
Rental assistance	$121M
Other needs	$283M

Hazard mitigation funded

Federal Hazard Mitigation Assistance obligated across Alabama to reduce future disaster losses, by program. Figures are federal share obligated, reported through OpenFEMA and not audited.

$313M

Federal mitigation share

1,758

Projects funded

7,026

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	1,657	$274M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	41	$18M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	9	$11M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	6	$7M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	45	$2M

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 5 declaration requests from Alabama since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 8.5%. This is the President denying a governor or tribal leader's request for a declaration, tracked in a separate FEMA dataset from approved declarations, and is not the same thing as an individual being denied assistance under an approved declaration.

Date	Type	Hazard
Feb 12, 2021	Major Disaster	Tornado
Apr 19, 2011	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Feb 1, 2010	Major Disaster	Freezing
Sep 12, 2008	Emergency	Hurricane
Feb 8, 2008	Major Disaster	Severe Storm

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How these numbers are built

Every figure is drawn from FEMA's OpenFEMA datasets: the Disaster Declarations Summaries for declarations and the Declaration Denials dataset for turndowns, rebuilt automatically each week. A "declaration" is one unique combination of declaration type (DR / EM / FM), disaster number, and state, so a single disaster affecting five states counts as five declarations. Years are federal fiscal years (Oct 1 to Sep 30). Totals on this page cover complete fiscal years only; the current in-progress year may appear in the most-recent list but is not counted in the totals. Uses OpenFEMA data but is not endorsed by or affiliated with FEMA.