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U.S. Virgin Islands: Federal Disaster Declarations

Name: U.S. Virgin Islands FEMA disaster declarations (FY2000 to FY2025)
Creator: Disaster Data

U.S. Virgin Islands has recorded 20 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 11 major disasters, 9 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is hurricane. It ranks #50 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

#50

National rank by declarations

20.2

Avg days to a decision

Browse all 3 jurisdictions in U.S. Virgin Islands, each with its full declaration history and a ready-to-use mitigation-plan table →

Most common hazards

Hurricane 11
Severe Storm 3
Tropical Storm 2
Other 2
Biological 2

All declarations on record

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

Showing 20 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Oct 25, 2024	DR-4841-VI	DR	Tropical Storm	Tropical Storm Ernesto
Aug 18, 2024	EM-3611-VI	EM	Tropical Storm	Tropical Storm Ernesto
Nov 18, 2023	EM-3603-VI	EM	Other	Elevated Levels Of Lead And Copper In The Water Supply
Jul 25, 2022	EM-3581-VI	EM	Other	Water Shortage And Health Impact From Unprecedented Sargassum Seagrass Influx
Jul 29, 2020	EM-3531-VI	EM	Hurricane	Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine
Apr 2, 2020	DR-4513-VI	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3433-VI	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Aug 28, 2019	EM-3418-VI	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Dorian
Sep 20, 2017	DR-4340-VI	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Maria
Sep 18, 2017	EM-3390-VI	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Maria
Sep 7, 2017	DR-4335-VI	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Irma
Sep 5, 2017	EM-3383-VI	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irma
Nov 24, 2010	DR-1949-VI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Rockslides, And Mudslides Assoc. With Ts Tomas
Nov 5, 2010	DR-1948-VI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, And Landslides
Sep 28, 2010	DR-1939-VI	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Earl
Oct 29, 2008	DR-1807-VI	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Omar
Oct 7, 2004	DR-1567-VI	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Jeanne
Dec 9, 2003	DR-1503-VI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Nov 23, 1999	DR-1309-VI	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Lenny Major Declaration
Nov 17, 1999	EM-3152-VI	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Lenny

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across U.S. Virgin Islands, 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.

38,589

Valid registrations

20,634

Households approved

$85M

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$37M
Rental assistance	$23M
Other needs	$26M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$250M

Federal mitigation share

173

Projects funded

225

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	163	$237M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	9	$13M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	1	$45K

Denied requests

No declaration requests from U.S. Virgin Islands 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.