American Samoa: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

American Samoa has recorded 10 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 8 major disasters, 2 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #56 nationally by total declarations.

Declarations since FY2000

Major disasters (DR)

Emergencies (EM)

Fire management (FM)

Requests denied

0.0%

Denial rate

#56

National rank by declarations

30.8

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Severe Storm 3
Biological 2
Hurricane 2
Typhoon 2
Earthquake 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 10 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Sep 15, 2022	DR-4669-AS	DR	Severe Storm	High Surf, High Winds, And Flooding
Apr 17, 2020	DR-4537-AS	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3465-AS	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Mar 2, 2018	DR-4357-AS	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Gita
Feb 11, 2018	EM-3397-AS	EM	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Gita
Sep 10, 2014	DR-4192-AS	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Landslides
Sep 29, 2009	DR-1859-AS	DR	Earthquake	Earthquake,Tsunami, And Flooding
Feb 18, 2005	DR-1582-AS	DR	Typhoon	Tc Olaf, Includ. High Winds And Surf And Heavy Rainfall
Jan 13, 2004	DR-1506-AS	DR	Typhoon	High Winds, High Surf, And Heavy Rainfall Associated With Tropcial Cyclone Heta
Jun 6, 2003	DR-1473-AS	DR	Severe Storm	Heavy Rainfall, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides

Denied requests

No declaration requests from American Samoa were turned down in complete fiscal years through FY2025.

Declarations not attributed to a specific locality

1 declaration in American Samoa applied statewide, or to areas FEMA did not tie to a single county or equivalent, such as wildfire management zones. They are included in the state totals above but do not appear on any individual jurisdiction page.

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Sep 15, 2022	DR-4669-AS	DR	Severe Storm	High Surf, High Winds, And Flooding

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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.