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Minnesota: Federal Disaster Declarations

Minnesota has recorded 39 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 29 major disasters, 7 emergencies, and 3 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #35 nationally by total declarations.

Totals: FY2000–FY2025 · Page last rebuilt Sep 12, 2026 · the current in-progress fiscal year is not included in totals

39
Declarations since FY2000
29
Major disasters (DR)
7
Emergencies (EM)
3
Fire management (FM)
2
Declaration requests denied
4.9%
Declaration-request denial rate
#35
National rank by declarations
41.6
Avg days to a decision

Most common hazards

All declarations on record

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

Showing 39 declarations

DateNumberTypeHazardTitle
May 14, 2025FM-5583-MNFMFireMunger Shaw Fire
Jun 28, 2024DR-4797-MNDRFloodSevere Storms And Flooding
Jul 19, 2023DR-4722-MNDRFloodSevere Storms And Flooding
Aug 9, 2022DR-4666-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Jul 13, 2022DR-4659-MNDRFloodSevere Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Jul 8, 2022DR-4658-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Apr 7, 2020DR-4531-MNDRBiologicalCovid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020EM-3453-MNEMBiologicalCovid-19
Mar 13, 2020EM-3503-MNEMBiologicalCovid-19
Mar 13, 2020EM-3508-MNEMBiologicalCovid-19
Jun 12, 2019DR-4442-MNDRFloodSevere Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Feb 1, 2019DR-4414-MNDRFloodSevere Storms And Flooding
Sep 5, 2018DR-4390-MNDRFloodSevere Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Nov 2, 2016DR-4290-MNDRFloodSevere Storms And Flooding
Jul 21, 2014DR-4182-MNDRFloodSevere Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Jul 25, 2013DR-4131-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
May 3, 2013DR-4113-MNDRSevere StormSevere Winter Storm
Jul 6, 2012DR-4069-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Jul 28, 2011DR-4009-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding, And Tornadoes
Jun 7, 2011DR-1990-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Tornadoes
May 10, 2011DR-1982-MNDRFloodSevere Storms And Flooding
Oct 13, 2010DR-1941-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Jul 2, 2010DR-1921-MNDRTornadoSevere Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Apr 19, 2010DR-1900-MNDRFloodFlooding
Mar 19, 2010EM-3310-MNEMFloodFlooding
Apr 9, 2009DR-1830-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Mar 26, 2009EM-3304-MNEMSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Jun 25, 2008DR-1772-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Aug 23, 2007DR-1717-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Aug 21, 2007EM-3278-MNEMOtherBridge Collapse
Jun 5, 2006DR-1648-MNDRFloodFlooding
Jan 4, 2006DR-1622-MNDRSevere StormSevere Winter Storm
Sep 13, 2005EM-3242-MNEMHurricaneHurricane Katrina Evacuation
Oct 7, 2004DR-1569-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Jun 14, 2002DR-1419-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding And Tornadoes
Jun 1, 2002FM-2409-MNFMFireMn - By-Pass Fire - 05/31/2002
May 16, 2001DR-1370-MNDRFloodSevere Winter Storms, Flooding, And Tornadoes
Oct 20, 2000FM-2345-MNFMFireMn - Carlos Edge Fire Complex - 10/19/2000
Jun 27, 2000DR-1333-MNDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Minnesota, 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.

20,079
Valid registrations
15,321
Households approved
$84M
Total IHP approved
Assistance typeApproved amount
Repair and replacement$35M
Rental assistance$2M
Other needs$47M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$151M
Federal mitigation share
549
Projects funded
2,485
Properties mitigated
ProgramProjectsFederal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)496$138M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)39$8M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)8$3M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)5$2M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)1$288K

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 2 declaration requests from Minnesota since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 4.9%. 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.

DateTypeHazard
Sep 30, 2021Major DisasterTornado
Jul 2, 2020Major DisasterCivil Unrest
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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.

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