North Carolina: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

North Carolina has recorded 50 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 29 major disasters, 12 emergencies, and 9 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is hurricane. It ranks #24 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

10.7%

Declaration-request denial rate

#24

National rank by declarations

22.9

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Hurricane 20
Fire 9
Severe Storm 8
Tropical Storm 4
Severe Ice Storm 3
Biological 2
Flood 2
Tropical Depression 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 50 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Sep 11, 2025	DR-4889-NC	DR	Tropical Depression	Tropical Depression Chantal
May 3, 2025	FM-5582-NC	FM	Fire	Sunset Drive Fire
Apr 20, 2025	FM-5580-NC	FM	Fire	Sam Davis Road Fire
Mar 27, 2025	FM-5578-NC	FM	Fire	Table Rock Fire
Mar 26, 2025	FM-5577-NC	FM	Fire	Alarka Fire
Mar 22, 2025	FM-5574-NC	FM	Fire	Black Cove Fire Complex
Oct 19, 2024	DR-4837-NC	DR	Tropical Storm	Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight
Sep 28, 2024	DR-4827-NC	DR	Tropical Storm	Tropical Storm Helene
Sep 26, 2024	EM-3617-NC	EM	Tropical Storm	Hurricane Helene
Aug 6, 2024	EM-3608-NC	EM	Tropical Storm	Tropical Storm Debby
Oct 1, 2022	EM-3586-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Ian
Sep 8, 2021	DR-4617-NC	DR	Hurricane	Remnants Of Tropical Storm Fred
Mar 3, 2021	DR-4588-NC	DR	Severe Storm	Tropical Storm Eta
Oct 14, 2020	DR-4568-NC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Isaias
Aug 2, 2020	EM-3534-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Isaias
May 8, 2020	DR-4543-NC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Mar 25, 2020	DR-4487-NC	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3471-NC	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Oct 4, 2019	DR-4465-NC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Dorian
Sep 3, 2019	EM-3423-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Dorian
Jan 31, 2019	DR-4412-NC	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Michael
Sep 14, 2018	DR-4393-NC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Florence
Sep 10, 2018	EM-3401-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Florence
May 8, 2018	DR-4364-NC	DR	Severe Storm	Tornado And Severe Storms
Nov 19, 2016	FM-5164-NC	FM	Fire	Chestnut Knob Fire
Nov 11, 2016	FM-5161-NC	FM	Fire	Party Rock Fire
Oct 10, 2016	DR-4285-NC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Matthew
Oct 7, 2016	EM-3380-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Matthew
Mar 31, 2014	DR-4167-NC	DR	Severe Ice Storm	Severe Winter Storm
Oct 29, 2013	DR-4153-NC	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, Mudslides
Sep 25, 2013	DR-4146-NC	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Mar 1, 2013	DR-4103-NC	DR	Mud/Landslide	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Aug 31, 2011	DR-4019-NC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Aug 25, 2011	EM-3327-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Jul 4, 2011	FM-2936-NC	FM	Fire	Simmons Road Fire
Apr 19, 2011	DR-1969-NC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Oct 14, 2010	DR-1942-NC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Straight-Line Winds
Sep 1, 2010	EM-3314-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Earl
Feb 2, 2010	DR-1871-NC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storms And Flooding
Oct 8, 2008	DR-1801-NC	DR	Severe Storm	Tropical Storm Hanna
Jun 13, 2008	FM-2773-NC	FM	Fire	Evans Road Fire
Oct 7, 2005	DR-1608-NC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Ophelia
Sep 14, 2005	EM-3254-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Ophelia
Sep 5, 2005	EM-3222-NC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Sep 18, 2004	DR-1553-NC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Ivan
Sep 10, 2004	DR-1546-NC	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Frances
Sep 18, 2003	DR-1490-NC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Isabel
Mar 27, 2003	DR-1457-NC	DR	Severe Ice Storm	Ice Storm
Dec 12, 2002	DR-1448-NC	DR	Severe Ice Storm	Severe Ice Storm
Jan 31, 2000	DR-1312-NC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across North Carolina, 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.

642,921

Valid registrations

293,855

Households approved

$1B

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$452M
Rental assistance	$111M
Other needs	$480M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$703M

Federal mitigation share

832

Projects funded

6,101

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	656	$636M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	95	$26M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	56	$22M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	7	$16M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	3	$2M
Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)	9	$2M
Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL)	6	$1M

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 6 declaration requests from North Carolina since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 10.7%. 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
Jul 30, 2018	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Oct 29, 2015	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
May 2, 2014	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Oct 24, 2008	Major Disaster	Coastal Storm
Aug 20, 2004	Major Disaster	Hurricane
Jun 6, 2000	Major Disaster	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.