Michigan: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

Michigan has recorded 19 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 13 major disasters, 6 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is flood. It ranks #52 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

32.1%

Declaration-request denial rate

#52

National rank by declarations

80.6

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Flood 5
Severe Storm 5
Dam/Levee Break 2
Biological 2
Severe Ice Storm 1
Toxic Substances 1
Hurricane 1
Other 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 19 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Jul 22, 2025	DR-4880-MI	DR	Severe Ice Storm	Severe Winter Storm
Feb 8, 2024	DR-4757-MI	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Jul 15, 2021	DR-4607-MI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Tornadoes
Jul 9, 2020	DR-4547-MI	DR	Dam/Levee Break	Severe Storms And Flooding
May 21, 2020	EM-3525-MI	EM	Dam/Levee Break	Severe Storms And Flooding
Mar 27, 2020	DR-4494-MI	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3455-MI	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Aug 2, 2018	DR-4381-MI	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Aug 2, 2017	DR-4326-MI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jan 16, 2016	EM-3375-MI	EM	Toxic Substances	Contaminated Water
Sep 25, 2014	DR-4195-MI	DR	Flood	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jun 18, 2013	DR-4121-MI	DR	Flood	Flooding
Jul 14, 2008	DR-1777-MI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Sep 7, 2005	EM-3225-MI	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Jun 30, 2004	DR-1527-MI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Sep 23, 2003	EM-3189-MI	EM	Other	Power Outage
May 6, 2002	DR-1413-MI	DR	Flood	Flooding
Jan 10, 2001	EM-3160-MI	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Oct 17, 2000	DR-1346-MI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Michigan, 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.

503,700

Valid registrations

313,457

Households approved

$1B

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$488M
Rental assistance	$276M
Other needs	$266M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$160M

Federal mitigation share

455

Projects funded

530

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	353	$133M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	59	$16M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	10	$7M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	23	$2M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	9	$2M
Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)	1	$115K

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 9 declaration requests from Michigan since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 32.1%. 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
Apr 11, 2025	Emergency	Severe Ice Storm
Jun 6, 2024	Major Disaster	Tornado
Jun 15, 2023	Major Disaster	Flood
Jun 8, 2022	Major Disaster	Tornado
Jun 10, 2019	Major Disaster	Flood
Jan 14, 2016	Major Disaster	Toxic Substances
Jun 1, 2012	Major Disaster	Flood
Apr 30, 2004	Major Disaster	Other
Jun 4, 2003	Major Disaster	Dam/Levee Break

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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.