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Mountrail County, North Dakota

Mountrail County recorded 15 federal major disaster declarations since FY2000 (through FY2026), the federal government's fullest response to an event. Alongside those sit 3 emergency declarations and 0 fire management declarations, 18 in all. Its most common hazard is severe storm.

Highlighted: Mountrail County, ND

Totals: FY2000 to FY2026 · Page last rebuilt Oct 26, 2026 · the current in-progress fiscal year is not included in totals

15
Major disasters
3
Emergency declarations
0
Fire management grants
18
All declarations on record
Jul 2023
Most recent
$3.2M
Federal PA obligated (top: roads and bridges)

The federal disaster record for Mountrail County runs between 2000 and 2023, covering 18 declarations in all. Its most recent major disaster declaration was Flooding in 2023. The hazards behind these declarations were most often severe storm, flood, and biological. Since 2000, FEMA has obligated about $3.2 million in Public Assistance funding to the jurisdiction, most of it for roads and bridges.

Risk and vulnerability context

Historical declarations show what has happened here. These national datasets add context about underlying natural-hazard risk and community vulnerability.

County FIPS 38061
CDC / ATSDR

Social Vulnerability Index

2022 county-level SVI
71.6
overall percentile nationally

Approximately 71.6% of U.S. counties have an equal or lower overall SVI ranking.

Socioeconomic status43.3
Household characteristics78.7
Racial and ethnic minority status80.9
Housing type and transportation81.4

Higher percentiles indicate greater relative social vulnerability within the CDC SVI framework. CDC SVI documentation

FEMA

National Risk Index

December 2025
21.4
overall risk score
Very Low
Expected annual loss$7.4MVery Low
NRI social vulnerability40.4Relatively Moderate
Community resilience19.0Very Low

The NRI combines expected annual loss, social vulnerability, and community resilience to describe relative natural-hazard risk. FEMA NRI documentation

About these measures: CDC Social Vulnerability Index and FEMA National Risk Index Social Vulnerability are separate measures built with different methods. They are shown side by side for context and should not be interpreted as equivalent scores.

Federal Public Assistance obligated

$3M has been obligated to Mountrail County in Public Assistance since FY2000.

$3M followed major disasters other than COVID-19. $27K followed emergency declarations, which cover debris removal and emergency protective work only. $20K, or 1% of the total, was COVID-19, which every county in the country received. $38K appears in FEMA's county totals but is not tied to a single declaration in the obligation timing file, so it is left unattributed here rather than assigned to a type.

Obligated is the committed share, not necessarily spent, and can be revised as projects close out.

Federal Public Assistance by category

Federal share obligated to this jurisdiction under FEMA Public Assistance since 2000, grouped by damage category. Figures are rounded to the nearest dollar and reflect obligations, which may change as projects close out.

CategoryProjectsFederal share obligated
Roads and bridges(C)179$2,937,731
Emergency protective measures(B)21$144,402
Buildings and equipment(E)7$71,233
Debris removal(A)2$2,731
Management costs(Z)2$0
Utilities(F)1$0
All categories212$3,156,097

Recovery funding, how fast it came

For each disaster, the wait from the declaration to the first federal obligation (amber), then the federal share obligating after that (teal), on a shared 6-year scale. Typical wait to the first obligation here: about 95 days. An obligation is the federal share committed to the recipient state, not funds disbursed to the locality, which comes later and is not shown.

Flooding 2023$249K
216 days to first federal obligation
Covid-19 Pandemic 2020$20K
217 days to first federal obligation
Flooding 2020$121K
108 days to first federal obligation
Severe Storms And Flooding 2014$73K
77 days to first federal obligation
Severe Storms And Flooding 2013$395K
82 days to first federal obligation
Flooding 2011$1.4M
65 days to first federal obligation
Declared1 yr2 yr3 yr4 yr5 yr6 yr

Assistance to households (Individual Assistance)

FEMA Individual Assistance to households in this jurisdiction, combined across the Housing Assistance owner and renter programs. Valid registrations are households that applied within a designated Individual Assistance area; approved counts and dollars are the households FEMA found eligible under the Individuals and Households Program. Figures are self-reported and drawn from NEMIS through OpenFEMA, not audited, and Individual Assistance exists only for disasters where it was designated, so many jurisdictions show none.

5
valid registrations
4
households approved
$32,352
total IHP approved
Assistance typeApproved amount
Other needs$32,352

Hazard mitigation, what has been funded here

Federal Hazard Mitigation Assistance obligated to this jurisdiction to reduce future disaster losses, across the FEMA mitigation programs. This is the record of past mitigation investment a local hazard mitigation plan documents. Figures are federal share obligated, reported through OpenFEMA and not audited, and are separate from the Public Assistance funding above.

$514,978
federal mitigation share
6
funded projects
1
property mitigated
ProgramProjectsFederal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program(HMGP)4$444,210
Pre-Disaster Mitigation(PDM)1$40,312
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities(BRIC)1$30,455

State declarations (governor)

Emergency declarations issued by the governor of this state, which are separate from and usually precede a federal declaration. A declaration is listed here when NOAA Storm Events recorded reports of the matched hazard in this jurisdiction while the order was in effect. That is evidence of local impact during a declared state emergency. It is not a statement that the governor named this jurisdiction in the order, since most state declarations apply statewide and name no localities at all. Hazard categories come from the order text. Damage figures are NOAA storm report estimates for this jurisdiction only, not the cost of the declaration.

2
state declarations with local storm evidence
34
statewide on record

Archive coverage for North Dakota: 2017-present numbered/dated Governor archive plus current-EOs page (dates confirmed per-order against news releases); 2000-2016 order numbers and undated 2024-2026 orders backfill pending

SignedOrderDeclarationHazards reported hereReported damage
Jun 30, 20262026-03Declares Statewide Disaster for Damage from Severe StormsThunderstorm WindNot reported
Apr 10, 20232023-04Declares Statewide Emergency for Spring FloodingFlood$110,000

Source: state executive order archives collected by DisasterData Plus, joined to NOAA Storm Events. See the Plus overview for per-state coverage and method.

Most common hazards

Every declaration on record

Major disaster (DR). The big one. Opens the full toolbox: repair money for public infrastructure, help for households, and mitigation funding to reduce the next loss.

Emergency (EM). Narrower and usually faster, for protective work before or during an incident. Capped, and rarely brings household assistance. Nearly every county has one from COVID-19.

Fire management (FM). Cost sharing to fight a wildfire as it burns. Not a disaster declaration, and it does not open recovery programs.

Showing 18 declarations

DateNumberTypeHazardTitle
Jul 5, 2023DR-4717-NDDRFloodFlooding
Jul 13, 2022DR-4660-NDDRSevere StormSevere Winter Storm And Flooding
Oct 2, 2020DR-4565-NDDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Apr 1, 2020DR-4509-NDDRBiologicalCovid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020EM-3477-NDEMBiologicalCovid-19
Jan 21, 2020DR-4475-NDDRFloodFlooding
Aug 19, 2014DR-4190-NDDRFloodSevere Storms And Flooding
Jul 12, 2013DR-4128-NDDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
May 20, 2011DR-1986-NDDRSevere StormSevere Winter Storm
May 10, 2011DR-1981-NDDRFloodFlooding
Feb 26, 2010DR-1879-NDDRSevere StormSevere Winter Storm
Mar 24, 2009DR-1829-NDDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Sep 13, 2005EM-3247-NDEMCoastal StormHurricane Katrina Evacuation
Jul 22, 2005DR-1597-NDDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding, And Ground Saturation
May 5, 2004DR-1515-NDDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding, And Ground Saturation
Apr 2, 2004EM-3196-NDEMSnowstormSnow
May 28, 2001DR-1376-NDDRFloodSevere Storms, Flooding, & Ground Saturation
Jun 27, 2000DR-1334-NDDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding And Ground Saturation
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How these numbers are built

Drawn from FEMA's OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, rebuilt each week. A declaration is counted here once for each designated area it names, so a single disaster covering many localities is counted in each one. For that reason these jurisdiction counts do not sum to North Dakota's statewide total. This page counts declarations that named this jurisdiction as a designated area. Totals cover complete fiscal years (Oct 1 to Sep 30). Declarations from the fiscal year still in progress are listed in the tables on this page but are not counted in the totals until the year is complete. Uses OpenFEMA data but is not endorsed by or affiliated with FEMA.

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