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Alabama: Federal Disaster Declarations
Alabama has recorded 41 major disaster declarations since FY2000 (through FY2026), the federal government's fullest response to an event. Alongside those sit 11 emergency declarations and 2 fire management declarations, 54 in all. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #15 nationally by major disasters.
Totals: FY2000 to FY2026 · Page last rebuilt Oct 25, 2026 · the current in-progress fiscal year is not included in totals
Past 12 months
Recent declarations and aid so far
Alabama has had 1 federal declaration in the past 12 months. The figures are what FEMA has reported to date and grow as recovery continues. It is from FY2027, so it is added to the complete-year totals above after that year ends on Sep 30, 2027.
| Declaration | Declared | Households approved | Individual Assistance | Public Assistance obligated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EM-3656-ALEmergency · Hurricane | Oct 9, 2026Incident period Oct 7 to 12, 2026 | None reported | None reported | None reported yet |
Individual Assistance is FEMA's Individuals and Households Program, from OpenFEMA's Housing Assistance data for owners and renters. Public Assistance is the obligated federal share from OpenFEMA's grant award activity, which usually starts posting weeks to months after a declaration. Select a declaration number to open its full event profile.
Federal Public Assistance obligated
$1.4B has been obligated to Alabama in Public Assistance since FY2000.
$1.3B followed major disasters other than COVID-19. $4M followed emergency declarations, which cover debris removal and emergency protective work only. $107M, or 8% of the total, was COVID-19, which every state and county in the country received.
Obligated is the committed share, not necessarily spent, and can be revised as projects close out. Totals are summed from funded localities, so a declaration administered entirely at state level may not appear here.
Most common hazards
- Severe Storm 28
- Hurricane 19
- Biological 4
- Fire 2
- Tornado 1
All declarations on record
Major disaster (DR). The big one. Opens the full toolbox: repair money for public infrastructure, help for households, and mitigation funding to reduce the next loss.
Emergency (EM). Narrower and usually faster, for protective work before or during an incident. Capped, and rarely brings household assistance. Nearly every state and county has one from COVID-19.
Fire management (FM). Cost sharing to fight a wildfire as it burns. Not a disaster declaration, and it does not open recovery programs.
DR = Major disaster (Stafford Act) · EM = Emergency declaration · FM = Fire management assistance
The totals above count complete fiscal years only. This list also includes one declaration made since Oct 1, 2026 (FY2027); it is added to the totals after that year ends on Sep 30, 2027.
Showing 55 declarations
| Date | Number | Type | Hazard | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2026 | EM-3656-AL | EM | Hurricane | Hurricane Isaias |
| 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-4554-AL | DR | Severe Storm | Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Tornadoes |
| Jul 10, 2020 | DR-4555-AL | DR | Severe Storm | Severe Thunderstorms |
| 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.
| 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.
| 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 |
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, ranks, and rates on this page cover complete fiscal years only. Declarations from the fiscal year still in progress are listed in each state's declaration tables and its recent-declarations panel, but are not counted in any total until the year is complete. Uses OpenFEMA data but is not endorsed by or affiliated with FEMA.