Maine: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

Maine has recorded 45 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 31 major disasters, 14 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #33 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

8.2%

Declaration-request denial rate

#33

National rank by declarations

50.7

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Severe Storm 19
Snowstorm 10
Flood 5
Hurricane 4
Biological 3
Coastal Storm 2
Winter Storm 1
Freezing 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 45 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
May 24, 2024	DR-4785-ME	DR	Winter Storm	Severe Winter Storm
Mar 20, 2024	DR-4764-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jan 30, 2024	DR-4754-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Sep 14, 2023	EM-3598-ME	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Lee
Sep 6, 2023	DR-4737-ME	DR	Flood	Severe Storm And Flooding
Sep 5, 2023	DR-4736-ME	DR	Flood	Severe Storm And Flooding
Jul 6, 2023	DR-4719-ME	DR	Flood	Severe Storm And Flooding
Mar 22, 2023	DR-4696-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Mar 15, 2022	DR-4647-ME	DR	Coastal Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Apr 4, 2020	DR-4522-ME	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3444-ME	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3498-ME	EM	Biological	Covid-19
May 30, 2018	DR-4367-ME	DR	Coastal Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Jan 2, 2018	DR-4354-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Mar 12, 2015	DR-4208-ME	DR	Snowstorm	Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, And Flooding
Mar 25, 2013	DR-4108-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm, Snowstorm, And Flooding
Sep 13, 2011	DR-4032-ME	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Irene
Feb 1, 2011	DR-1953-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jul 1, 2010	DR-1920-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Mar 25, 2010	DR-1891-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm
Jul 30, 2009	DR-1852-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Landslides
Jan 9, 2009	DR-1815-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm And Flooding
Dec 15, 2008	EM-3298-ME	EM	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm
Sep 9, 2008	DR-1788-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Tornadoes
May 9, 2008	DR-1755-ME	DR	Flood	Severe Storms And Flooding
Aug 8, 2007	DR-1716-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Apr 25, 2007	DR-1693-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Inland And Coastal Flooding
Apr 20, 2007	DR-1691-ME	DR	Flood	Flooding
May 25, 2006	DR-1644-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Feb 24, 2006	EM-3265-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Sep 19, 2005	EM-3256-ME	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Jun 29, 2005	DR-1591-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt, And Ice Jams
Apr 21, 2005	EM-3210-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Record Snow
Apr 1, 2005	EM-3209-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Mar 14, 2005	EM-3205-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Record And/Or Near Record Snow
Mar 14, 2005	EM-3206-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Record And/Or Near Record Snow
Feb 5, 2004	DR-1508-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Snow Melt And Ice Jams
Jan 26, 2004	EM-3194-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Jan 15, 2004	EM-3190-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
May 14, 2003	DR-1468-ME	DR	Freezing	Severe Winter Cold And Frost
Mar 11, 2003	EM-3174-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
May 16, 2001	DR-1371-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storms And Flooding
Mar 20, 2001	EM-3164-ME	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Apr 28, 2000	DR-1326-ME	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Ice Jams
Nov 18, 1999	DR-1308-ME	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Floyd Major Disaster Declarations

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Maine, 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.

69,565

Valid registrations

5,319

Households approved

$24M

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$13M
Rental assistance	$3M
Other needs	$8M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$49M

Federal mitigation share

389

Projects funded

183

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	361	$35M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	6	$7M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	5	$5M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	11	$1M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	6	$146K

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 4 declaration requests from Maine since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 8.2%. 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 21, 2014	Major Disaster	Severe Ice Storm
Mar 28, 2008	Emergency	Snowstorm
Jun 30, 2005	Major Disaster	Fishing Losses
Apr 9, 2002	Major Disaster	Drought

Declarations not attributed to a specific locality

1 declaration in Maine 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 14, 2023	EM-3598-ME	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Lee

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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.