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Puerto Rico: Federal Disaster Declarations

Puerto Rico has recorded 33 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 21 major disasters, 12 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is hurricane. It ranks #41 nationally by total declarations.

33
Declarations since FY2000
21
Major disasters (DR)
12
Emergencies (EM)
0
Fire management (FM)
0
Requests denied
0.0%
Denial rate
#41
National rank by declarations
22.6
Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

All declarations on record

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

Showing 33 declarations

DateNumberTypeHazardTitle
Nov 27, 2024DR-4850-PRDRTropical StormTropical Storm Ernesto
Aug 13, 2024EM-3610-PREMSevere StormTropical Storm Ernesto
Jul 23, 2024DR-4805-PRDRFloodSevere Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 21, 2022DR-4671-PRDRHurricaneHurricane Fiona
Sep 18, 2022EM-3583-PREMHurricaneTropical Storm Fiona
Mar 29, 2022DR-4649-PRDRFloodSevere Storm, Flooding, And Landslides
Nov 5, 2020DR-4571-PRDRFloodSevere Storm And Flooding
Sep 9, 2020DR-4560-PRDRHurricaneHurricane Isaias
Aug 22, 2020EM-3537-PREMHurricaneTropical Storm Laura
Jul 29, 2020EM-3532-PREMHurricanePotential Tropical Cyclone Nine
Mar 27, 2020DR-4493-PRDRBiologicalCovid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020EM-3452-PREMBiologicalCovid-19
Jan 16, 2020DR-4473-PRDREarthquakeEarthquakes
Jan 7, 2020EM-3426-PREMEarthquakeEarthquakes
Aug 27, 2019EM-3417-PREMSevere StormTropical Storm Dorian
Sep 20, 2017DR-4339-PRDRHurricaneHurricane Maria
Sep 18, 2017EM-3391-PREMHurricaneHurricane Maria
Sep 10, 2017DR-4336-PRDRHurricaneHurricane Irma
Sep 5, 2017EM-3384-PREMHurricaneHurricane Irma
Oct 18, 2011DR-4040-PRDRHurricaneTropical Storm Maria
Aug 27, 2011DR-4017-PRDRHurricaneHurricane Irene
Aug 22, 2011EM-3326-PREMHurricaneHurricane Irene
Jul 14, 2011DR-4004-PRDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, And Landslides
Oct 26, 2010DR-1946-PRDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, And Landslides Assoc W Ts Otto
Jun 24, 2010DR-1919-PRDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Oct 24, 2009EM-3306-PREMFireExplosions And Fire
Oct 1, 2008DR-1798-PRDRSevere StormSevere Storms And Flooding
Nov 10, 2005DR-1613-PRDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 17, 2004DR-1552-PRDRSevere StormTropical Storm Jeanne And Resulting Landslides And Mudslides
Nov 21, 2003DR-1501-PRDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, And Landslides
Nov 28, 2001DR-1396-PRDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding, Mudslides And Landslides
May 16, 2001DR-1372-PRDRSevere StormSevere Storms, Flooding And Mudslides
Nov 17, 1999EM-3151-PREMHurricaneHurricane Lenny

Denied requests

No declaration requests from Puerto Rico were turned down in complete fiscal years through FY2025.

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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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