Delaware: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

Delaware has recorded 16 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 11 major disasters, 5 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is hurricane. It ranks #54 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

5.9%

Declaration-request denial rate

#54

National rank by declarations

37.7

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Hurricane 9
Snowstorm 3
Biological 2
Severe Storm 2

All declarations on record

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

Showing 16 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Oct 24, 2021	DR-4627-DE	DR	Hurricane	Remnants Of Hurricane Ida
Oct 2, 2020	DR-4566-DE	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Isaias
Apr 5, 2020	DR-4526-DE	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3449-DE	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Mar 16, 2016	DR-4265-DE	DR	Snowstorm	Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
Nov 16, 2012	DR-4090-DE	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Sandy
Oct 29, 2012	EM-3357-DE	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Sandy
Sep 30, 2011	DR-4037-DE	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Aug 28, 2011	EM-3336-DE	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Mar 31, 2010	DR-1896-DE	DR	Snowstorm	Severe Winter Storms And Snowstorms
Jul 5, 2006	DR-1654-DE	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 30, 2005	EM-3263-DE	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Nov 15, 2004	DR-1572-DE	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding From The Remnants Of
Sep 23, 2003	DR-1495-DE	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Henri
Sep 20, 2003	DR-1494-DE	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Isabel
Mar 20, 2003	EM-3183-DE	EM	Snowstorm	Snow

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Delaware, 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.

2,429

Valid registrations

1,853

Households approved

$11M

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$523K
Rental assistance	$492K
Other needs	$10M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$21M

Federal mitigation share

144

Projects funded

126

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	85	$9M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	37	$8M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	19	$5M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	3	$258K

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 1 declaration request from Delaware since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 5.9%. 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
Oct 27, 2016	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.