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FEMA Disaster Declarations by State

Every US state, the District of Columbia, and the territories, ranked by federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025). 3395 declarations in all. Select a state for its full history, hazard breakdown, denial rate, and most recent declarations.

  1. California319 declarations
  2. Texas214 declarations
  3. Oklahoma196 declarations
  4. Washington156 declarations
  5. Oregon119 declarations
  6. Florida109 declarations
  7. New Mexico103 declarations
  8. Arizona89 declarations
  9. Colorado86 declarations
  10. Nevada83 declarations
  11. Montana82 declarations
  12. Kansas69 declarations
  13. New York68 declarations
  14. South Dakota65 declarations
  15. Alaska64 declarations
  16. Louisiana64 declarations
  17. Tennessee64 declarations
  18. Kentucky62 declarations
  19. Nebraska57 declarations
  20. Mississippi56 declarations
  21. Missouri55 declarations
  22. Alabama54 declarations
  23. West Virginia51 declarations
  24. North Carolina50 declarations
  25. Arkansas48 declarations
  26. Utah48 declarations
  27. Hawaii47 declarations
  28. North Dakota47 declarations
  29. New Hampshire47 declarations
  30. Georgia46 declarations
  31. Virginia46 declarations
  32. Iowa45 declarations
  33. Maine45 declarations
  34. Vermont45 declarations
  35. Minnesota39 declarations
  36. South Carolina39 declarations
  37. Idaho38 declarations
  38. Massachusetts38 declarations
  39. Wyoming38 declarations
  40. New Jersey37 declarations
  41. Puerto Rico33 declarations
  42. Illinois31 declarations
  43. Connecticut30 declarations
  44. Ohio30 declarations
  45. Pennsylvania28 declarations
  46. Indiana27 declarations
  47. Wisconsin25 declarations
  48. Maryland22 declarations
  49. Rhode Island21 declarations
  50. U.S. Virgin Islands20 declarations
  51. Washington D.C.19 declarations
  52. Michigan19 declarations
  53. N. Mariana Islands17 declarations
  54. Delaware16 declarations
  55. Guam13 declarations
  56. American Samoa10 declarations
  57. Fed. States of Micronesia6 declarations

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.