New Jersey: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

New Jersey has recorded 37 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 25 major disasters, 9 emergencies, and 3 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #40 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

15.9%

Declaration-request denial rate

#40

National rank by declarations

31.7

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Severe Storm 16
Hurricane 8
Snowstorm 5
Fire 4
Biological 2
Other 2

All declarations on record

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

Showing 37 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Apr 24, 2025	FM-5581-NJ	FM	Fire	Jones Road Fire
Aug 11, 2023	DR-4725-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Sep 5, 2021	DR-4614-NJ	DR	Hurricane	Remnants Of Hurricane Ida
Sep 2, 2021	EM-3573-NJ	EM	Hurricane	Remnants Of Hurricane Ida
Apr 28, 2021	DR-4597-NJ	DR	Snowstorm	Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
Dec 11, 2020	DR-4574-NJ	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Isaias
Mar 25, 2020	DR-4488-NJ	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3451-NJ	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Jun 8, 2018	DR-4368-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
Mar 14, 2016	DR-4264-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
Jul 22, 2015	DR-4231-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm
Oct 30, 2012	DR-4086-NJ	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Sandy
Oct 28, 2012	EM-3354-NJ	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Sandy
Jul 19, 2012	DR-4070-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Straight-Line Winds
Nov 30, 2011	DR-4048-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm
Oct 14, 2011	DR-4039-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Remnants Of Tropical Storm Lee
Sep 15, 2011	DR-4033-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Aug 31, 2011	DR-4021-NJ	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Aug 27, 2011	EM-3332-NJ	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Feb 4, 2011	DR-1954-NJ	DR	Snowstorm	Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
Apr 2, 2010	DR-1897-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Mar 23, 2010	DR-1889-NJ	DR	Snowstorm	Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
Feb 5, 2010	DR-1873-NJ	DR	Snowstorm	Snowstorm
Dec 22, 2009	DR-1867-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding Associated With Tropical Depression Ida And A Nor'Eas
May 16, 2007	FM-2695-NJ	FM	Fire	Warren Grove Fire
Apr 26, 2007	DR-1694-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Inland And Coastal Flooding
Jul 7, 2006	DR-1653-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 19, 2005	EM-3257-NJ	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Apr 19, 2005	DR-1588-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Oct 1, 2004	DR-1563-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jul 16, 2004	DR-1530-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 23, 2003	EM-3188-NJ	EM	Other	Power Outage
Mar 20, 2003	EM-3181-NJ	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Jun 2, 2002	FM-2411-NJ	FM	Fire	Nj - Double Trouble Wildfire - 6/02/02
Sep 19, 2001	EM-3169-NJ	EM	Fire	Fires And Explosions
Nov 1, 2000	EM-3156-NJ	EM	Other	West Nile Virus
Aug 17, 2000	DR-1337-NJ	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding And Mudslides

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across New Jersey, 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.

488,189

Valid registrations

194,563

Households approved

$1B

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$515M
Rental assistance	$281M
Other needs	$219M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$789M

Federal mitigation share

843

Projects funded

4,322

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	676	$502M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	95	$181M
Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL)	11	$49M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	43	$29M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	13	$23M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	3	$3M
Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)	2	$1M

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 7 declaration requests from New Jersey since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 15.9%. 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.

Date	Type	Hazard
Aug 30, 2018	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Oct 29, 2015	Major Disaster	Coastal Storm
Mar 31, 2011	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Oct 18, 2005	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Jul 21, 2005	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Oct 3, 2003	Major Disaster	Hurricane
Aug 14, 2002	Emergency	Severe Storm

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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.