Puerto Rico: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

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.

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

0.0%

Declaration-request denial rate

#41

National rank by declarations

22.6

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Hurricane 13
Severe Storm 11
Flood 3
Biological 2
Earthquake 2
Tropical Storm 1
Fire 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 33 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Nov 27, 2024	DR-4850-PR	DR	Tropical Storm	Tropical Storm Ernesto
Aug 13, 2024	EM-3610-PR	EM	Severe Storm	Tropical Storm Ernesto
Jul 23, 2024	DR-4805-PR	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 21, 2022	DR-4671-PR	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Fiona
Sep 18, 2022	EM-3583-PR	EM	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Fiona
Mar 29, 2022	DR-4649-PR	DR	Flood	Severe Storm, Flooding, And Landslides
Nov 5, 2020	DR-4571-PR	DR	Flood	Severe Storm And Flooding
Sep 9, 2020	DR-4560-PR	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Isaias
Aug 22, 2020	EM-3537-PR	EM	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Laura
Jul 29, 2020	EM-3532-PR	EM	Hurricane	Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine
Mar 27, 2020	DR-4493-PR	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3452-PR	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Jan 16, 2020	DR-4473-PR	DR	Earthquake	Earthquakes
Jan 7, 2020	EM-3426-PR	EM	Earthquake	Earthquakes
Aug 27, 2019	EM-3417-PR	EM	Severe Storm	Tropical Storm Dorian
Sep 20, 2017	DR-4339-PR	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Maria
Sep 18, 2017	EM-3391-PR	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Maria
Sep 10, 2017	DR-4336-PR	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Irma
Sep 5, 2017	EM-3384-PR	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irma
Oct 18, 2011	DR-4040-PR	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Maria
Aug 27, 2011	DR-4017-PR	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Aug 22, 2011	EM-3326-PR	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Jul 14, 2011	DR-4004-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, And Landslides
Oct 26, 2010	DR-1946-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, And Landslides Assoc W Ts Otto
Jun 24, 2010	DR-1919-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Oct 24, 2009	EM-3306-PR	EM	Fire	Explosions And Fire
Oct 1, 2008	DR-1798-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Nov 10, 2005	DR-1613-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 17, 2004	DR-1552-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Tropical Storm Jeanne And Resulting Landslides And Mudslides
Nov 21, 2003	DR-1501-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, And Landslides
Nov 28, 2001	DR-1396-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides And Landslides
May 16, 2001	DR-1372-PR	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding And Mudslides
Nov 17, 1999	EM-3151-PR	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Lenny

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Puerto Rico, 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.

2,752,957

Valid registrations

1,485,741

Households approved

$2.6B

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$890M
Rental assistance	$201M
Other needs	$1.5B

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$880M

Federal mitigation share

593

Projects funded

778

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	575	$877M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	11	$2M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	7	$1M

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.