Ohio: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

Ohio has recorded 30 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 24 major disasters, 6 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #44 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

14.3%

Declaration-request denial rate

#44

National rank by declarations

32.9

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Severe Storm 18
Tornado 3
Biological 2
Flood 2
Hurricane 2
Snowstorm 2
Other 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 30 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
May 2, 2024	DR-4777-OH	DR	Tornado	Tornadoes
Mar 31, 2020	DR-4507-OH	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3457-OH	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Jun 18, 2019	DR-4447-OH	DR	Tornado	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslide
Apr 8, 2019	DR-4424-OH	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Landslides
Apr 17, 2018	DR-4360-OH	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Landslides, And Mudslides
Jan 3, 2013	DR-4098-OH	DR	Hurricane	Severe Storms And Flooding Due To The Remnants Of Hurricane Sandy
Aug 20, 2012	DR-4077-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Straight-Line Winds
Jun 30, 2012	EM-3346-OH	EM	Severe Storm	Severe Storms
Jul 13, 2011	DR-4002-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Oct 24, 2008	DR-1805-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Wind Storm Associated With Tropical Depression Ike
Apr 24, 2008	EM-3286-OH	EM	Snowstorm	Record Snow And Near Record Snow
Aug 27, 2007	DR-1720-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Tornadoes
Aug 1, 2006	DR-1656-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Straight Line Winds, And Flooding
Jul 2, 2006	DR-1651-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight Line Winds, And Flooding
Sep 13, 2005	EM-3250-OH	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Feb 15, 2005	DR-1580-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, And Mudslides
Jan 11, 2005	EM-3198-OH	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Sep 19, 2004	DR-1556-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jun 3, 2004	DR-1519-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jan 26, 2004	DR-1507-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, And Landslides
Sep 23, 2003	EM-3187-OH	EM	Other	Power Outage
Aug 1, 2003	DR-1484-OH	DR	Tornado	Tornadoes, Flooding, Severe Storms, And High Winds
Jul 15, 2003	DR-1478-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Mar 14, 2003	DR-1453-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm And Record/Near Record Snow
Nov 18, 2002	DR-1444-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Tornadoes
Aug 27, 2001	DR-1390-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 26, 2000	DR-1343-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Tornado
Aug 21, 2000	DR-1339-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Mar 7, 2000	DR-1321-OH	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Ohio, 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.

192,030

Valid registrations

119,662

Households approved

$331M

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$91M
Rental assistance	$18M
Other needs	$220M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$164M

Federal mitigation share

491

Projects funded

2,538

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	349	$126M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	73	$21M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	51	$14M
Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)	5	$2M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	9	$1M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	2	$248K
Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL)	2	$193K

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 5 declaration requests from Ohio since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 14.3%. 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
Jun 3, 2024	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Jul 3, 2023	Major Disaster	Explosion
Mar 7, 2012	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Jun 9, 2010	Major Disaster	Tornado
Sep 7, 2004	Major Disaster	Flood

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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.