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St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

St. Tammany Parish recorded 19 federal major disaster declarations since FY2000 (through FY2026), the federal government's fullest response to an event. Alongside those sit 18 emergency declarations and 0 fire management declarations, 37 in all. Its most common hazard is hurricane.

Highlighted: St. Tammany Parish, LA

Totals: FY2000 to FY2026 · Page last rebuilt Oct 26, 2026 · the current in-progress fiscal year is not included in totals

19
Major disasters
18
Emergency declarations
0
Fire management grants
37
All declarations on record
Jun 2026
Most recent
$634.1M
Federal PA obligated (top: debris removal)

The federal disaster record for St. Tammany Parish runs between 2001 and 2026, covering 37 declarations in all. Its most recent major disaster declaration was Tropical Storm Arthur in 2026. The hazards behind these declarations were most often hurricane, coastal storm, and flood. Since 2000, FEMA has obligated about $634.1 million in Public Assistance funding to the jurisdiction, most of it for debris removal.

Past 12 months

Recent declarations and aid so far

St. Tammany Parish has been named in 2 federal declarations in the past 12 months. The figures are what FEMA has reported for St. Tammany Parish to date and grow as recovery continues. All of them fall in complete fiscal years and are counted in the totals above.

469
Households approved for assistance
$2.8M
Individual Assistance approved
None yet
Public Assistance obligated
DeclarationDeclaredHouseholds approvedIndividual AssistancePublic Assistance obligated
DR-4927-LAMajor disaster · Tropical StormJun 30, 2026Incident period Jun 17 to 24, 2026469of 976 registered$2.8MNone reported yet
EM-3638-LAEmergency · Winter StormJan 24, 2026Incident period Jan 23 to 27, 2026None reportedNone reportedNone reported yet

DR-4927-LA has approved 469 households for assistance so far, the 7th most of any St. Tammany Parish disaster in FEMA's household assistance data, which begins in 2002. The most was DR-1603-LA in 2005, with 77,198. COVID-19 funeral assistance is left out of this comparison. St. Tammany Parish's 469 households are 6% of the 8,095 approved across Louisiana under DR-4927-LA.

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, with the same figures for every place it covers.

Risk and vulnerability context

Historical declarations show what has happened here. These national datasets add context about underlying natural-hazard risk and community vulnerability.

County FIPS 22103
CDC / ATSDR

Social Vulnerability Index

2022 county-level SVI
48.7
overall percentile nationally

Approximately 48.7% of U.S. counties have an equal or lower overall SVI ranking.

Socioeconomic status45.4
Household characteristics86.5
Racial and ethnic minority status59.5
Housing type and transportation17.0

Higher percentiles indicate greater relative social vulnerability within the CDC SVI framework. CDC SVI documentation

FEMA

National Risk Index

December 2025
96.6
overall risk score
Relatively High
Expected annual loss$248.9MRelatively High
NRI social vulnerability34.0Relatively Low
Community resilience93.8Very High

The NRI combines expected annual loss, social vulnerability, and community resilience to describe relative natural-hazard risk. FEMA NRI documentation

About these measures: CDC Social Vulnerability Index and FEMA National Risk Index Social Vulnerability are separate measures built with different methods. They are shown side by side for context and should not be interpreted as equivalent scores.

Federal Public Assistance obligated

$634M has been obligated to St. Tammany Parish in Public Assistance since FY2000.

$601M followed major disasters other than COVID-19. $223K followed emergency declarations, which cover debris removal and emergency protective work only. $33M, or 5% of the total, was COVID-19, which every county in the country received.

Obligated is the committed share, not necessarily spent, and can be revised as projects close out.

Federal Public Assistance by category

Federal share obligated to this jurisdiction under FEMA Public Assistance since 2000, grouped by damage category. Figures are rounded to the nearest dollar and reflect obligations, which may change as projects close out.

CategoryProjectsFederal share obligated
Debris removal(A)157$290,308,661
Buildings and equipment(E)520$119,037,671
Emergency protective measures(B)493$110,118,602
Utilities(F)109$82,014,515
Roads and bridges(C)83$14,364,178
Parks and recreation(G)100$9,608,445
Management costs(Z)53$5,019,178
Water control facilities(D)20$3,668,951
All categories1,535$634,140,201

Recovery funding, how fast it came

For each disaster, the wait from the declaration to the first federal obligation (amber), then the federal share obligating after that (teal), on a shared 7-year scale. Typical wait to the first obligation here: about 142 days. An obligation is the federal share committed to the recipient state, not funds disbursed to the locality, which comes later and is not shown.

Hurricane Francine 2024$851K
148 days to first federal obligation
Hurricane Ida 2021$84.8M
137 days to first federal obligation
Hurricane Zeta 2021$664K
111 days to first federal obligation
Hurricane Sally 2020$79K
336 days to first federal obligation
Hurricane Laura 2020$40K
356 days to first federal obligation
Covid-19 Pandemic 2020$33.1M
80 days to first federal obligation
Declared1 yr2 yr3 yr4 yr5 yr6 yr7 yr

Assistance to households (Individual Assistance)

FEMA Individual Assistance to households in this jurisdiction, combined across the Housing Assistance owner and renter programs. Valid registrations are households that applied within a designated Individual Assistance area; approved counts and dollars are the households FEMA found eligible under the Individuals and Households Program. Figures are self-reported and drawn from NEMIS through OpenFEMA, not audited, and Individual Assistance exists only for disasters where it was designated, so many jurisdictions show none.

217,997
valid registrations
129,459
households approved
$494,295,683
total IHP approved
Assistance typeApproved amount
Repair and replacement$58,306,444
Rental assistance$183,846,481
Other needs$127,112,396

Hazard mitigation, what has been funded here

Federal Hazard Mitigation Assistance obligated to this jurisdiction to reduce future disaster losses, across the FEMA mitigation programs. This is the record of past mitigation investment a local hazard mitigation plan documents. Figures are federal share obligated, reported through OpenFEMA and not audited, and are separate from the Public Assistance funding above.

$175,060,947
federal mitigation share
106
funded projects
739
properties mitigated
ProgramProjectsFederal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program(HMGP)61$94,773,421
Flood Mitigation Assistance(FMA)33$65,499,012
Severe Repetitive Loss(SRL)10$14,446,278
Pre-Disaster Mitigation(PDM)2$342,237

State declarations (governor)

Emergency declarations issued by the governor of this state, which are separate from and usually precede a federal declaration. A declaration is listed here when NOAA Storm Events recorded reports of the matched hazard in this jurisdiction while the order was in effect. That is evidence of local impact during a declared state emergency. It is not a statement that the governor named this jurisdiction in the order, since most state declarations apply statewide and name no localities at all. Hazard categories come from the order text. Damage figures are NOAA storm report estimates for this jurisdiction only, not the cost of the declaration.

18
state declarations with local storm evidence
45
statewide on record

Archive coverage for Louisiana: 2016-present official State Register web indexes; 2016-2023 weather proclamations by Governor Edwards added by hand from the proclamations and dated news coverage; 2000-2015 gap disclosed; plus 15 weather declarations from FMCSA's archive of state emergency declarations (2017-present)

SignedOrderDeclarationHazards reported hereReported damage
Jun 18, 2026JML 26-55State of Emergency- Tropical Storm Arthur- June 18, 2026Flash Flood, Thunderstorm Wind, Tornado$566,000
Sep 9, 2024JML 24-142State of Emergency-Tropical Storm Francine- September 9, 2024Flash Flood$3,000,000
Jun 25, 2024JML 24-89State of Emergency—Severe Storms and Tornadoes—May 30 - June 4, 2024Hail, Thunderstorm Wind$5,000
May 20, 2024JML 24-72State of Emergency—Severe Storms and Tornadoes—May 14-17, 2024Flash Flood, Thunderstorm Wind$11,000
Apr 16, 2024JML 24-54State of Emergency—Severe Storms and Tornadoes—April 10, 2024Flash Flood, Thunderstorm Wind, Tornado$1,050,000
Jun 16, 2023112 JBE 2023State of Emergency: Severe Weather and Power OutagesFlash Flood, Thunderstorm Wind$31,500
Dec 13, 2022LA-FMCSA-3FA0029CB963Louisiana Proclamation Number 183 JBE 2022 - State of Emergency - Severe Storms and Tornadoes (12/13/2022)TornadoNot reported
Mar 22, 2022LA-FMCSA-0DAC572A75BDLouisiana State of Emergency Tornados 03/22/2022Tornado$5,000
Aug 26, 2021LA-FMCSA-9949C71BC983Louisiana State of Emergency Tropical Storm Ida Aug 2021Heavy Rain, Tornado$125,000
Jun 17, 2021115 JBE 2021State of Emergency: Invest 92L Tropical Storm, which became Tropical Storm ClaudetteFlash Flood$20,000
Apr 15, 202171 JBE 2021State of emergency for the ongoing severe weatherFlash Flood$50,000
Aug 21, 2020LA-FMCSA-52EEF2ACDD0CLouisiana 108-JBE-2020-SOE-Tropical-Storm-Laura-and-Tropical-Depression-14Flash Flood, Hail, Thunderstorm Wind$35,000
Apr 12, 202045 JBE 2020State of Emergency: Severe WeatherThunderstorm Wind$1,500,000
Jul 10, 2019LA-FMCSA-61717324F4BDLouisiana Proclamation Number 111 JBE 2019 - State of Emergency - Invest 911. From FMCSA's copy: Invest 92L, a low pressure system currently over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, is expected to become a hurricane before making landfallThunderstorm WindNot reported
Jun 21, 2017LA-SOE-2017-06-21Statewide state of emergency ahead of Tropical Storm CindyHeavy RainNot reported
Feb 7, 201717 JBE 2017Statewide state of emergency after severe storms and tornadoes in southeast LouisianaHail, TornadoNot reported
Aug 12, 2016111 JBE 2016State of Emergency: Heavy Rain and FloodingFlood$3,230,000
Mar 9, 2016LA-SOE-2016-03-09State of emergency for severe weather and flash flooding in north Louisiana parishesFlash Flood, Flood$4,800,000

Source: state executive order archives collected by DisasterData Plus, joined to NOAA Storm Events. See the Plus overview for per-state coverage and method.

Most common hazards

Every declaration 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 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.

Showing 37 declarations

DateNumberTypeHazardTitle
Jun 30, 2026DR-4927-LADRTropical StormTropical Storm Arthur
Jan 24, 2026EM-3638-LAEMWinter StormSevere Winter Storm
Sep 16, 2024DR-4817-LADRHurricaneHurricane Francine
Sep 10, 2024EM-3614-LAEMHurricaneTropical Storm Francine
Sep 13, 2021EM-3574-LAEMCoastal StormTropical Storm Nicholas
Aug 29, 2021DR-4611-LADRHurricaneHurricane Ida
Aug 27, 2021EM-3568-LAEMHurricaneTropical Storm Ida
Mar 9, 2021DR-4590-LADRSevere Ice StormSevere Winter Storms
Feb 18, 2021EM-3556-LAEMSevere Ice StormSevere Winter Storm
Jan 12, 2021DR-4577-LADRHurricaneHurricane Zeta
Oct 27, 2020EM-3549-LAEMHurricaneTropical Storm Zeta
Oct 16, 2020DR-4570-LADRHurricaneHurricane Delta
Oct 7, 2020EM-3547-LAEMHurricaneHurricane Delta
Sep 14, 2020EM-3543-LAEMHurricaneHurricane Sally
Aug 28, 2020DR-4559-LADRHurricaneHurricane Laura
Aug 23, 2020EM-3538-LAEMHurricaneTropical Storms Laura And Marco
Jun 7, 2020EM-3527-LAEMCoastal StormTropical Storm Cristobal
Mar 24, 2020DR-4484-LADRBiologicalCovid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020EM-3459-LAEMBiologicalCovid-19
Jul 11, 2019EM-3416-LAEMCoastal StormTropical Storm Barry
Oct 6, 2017EM-3392-LAEMHurricaneTropical Storm Nate
Aug 14, 2016DR-4277-LADRFloodSevere Storms And Flooding
Mar 13, 2016DR-4263-LADRFloodSevere Storms And Flooding
Aug 29, 2012DR-4080-LADRHurricaneHurricane Isaac
Aug 27, 2012EM-3347-LAEMHurricaneTropical Storm Isaac
Sep 13, 2008DR-1792-LADRHurricaneHurricane Ike
Sep 2, 2008DR-1786-LADRHurricaneHurricane Gustav
Aug 29, 2008EM-3289-LAEMHurricaneHurricane Gustav
Sep 24, 2005DR-1607-LADRHurricaneHurricane Rita
Sep 21, 2005EM-3260-LAEMHurricaneHurricane Rita
Aug 29, 2005DR-1603-LADRHurricaneHurricane Katrina
Aug 27, 2005EM-3212-LAEMHurricaneHurricane Katrina
Sep 15, 2004DR-1548-LADRHurricaneHurricane Ivan
Feb 1, 2003EM-3172-LAEMOtherLoss Of Space Shuttle Columbia
Oct 3, 2002DR-1437-LADRHurricaneHurricane Lili
Sep 27, 2002DR-1435-LADRHurricaneTropical Storm Isidore
Jun 11, 2001DR-1380-LADRCoastal StormTropical Storm Allison
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How these numbers are built

Drawn from FEMA's OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, rebuilt each week. A declaration is counted here once for each designated area it names, so a single disaster covering many localities is counted in each one. For that reason these jurisdiction counts do not sum to Louisiana's statewide total. This page counts declarations that named this jurisdiction as a designated area. Totals cover complete fiscal years (Oct 1 to Sep 30). Declarations from the fiscal year still in progress are listed in the tables on this page but are not counted in the totals until the year is complete. Uses OpenFEMA data but is not endorsed by or affiliated with FEMA.

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