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Island

St. John Island, U.S. Virgin Islands

Name: St. John Island, U.S. Virgin Islands FEMA disaster declarations
Creator: Disaster Data

St. John Island recorded 10 federal major disaster declarations since FY2000 (through FY2026), the federal government's fullest response to an event. Alongside those sit 7 emergency declarations and 0 fire management declarations, 17 in all. Its most common hazard is hurricane.

Highlighted: St. John Island, VI

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

Major disasters

Emergency declarations

Fire management grants

All declarations on record

Oct 2024

Most recent

The federal disaster record for St. John Island runs between 1999 and 2024, covering 17 declarations in all. Its most recent major disaster declaration was Tropical Storm Ernesto in 2024. The hazards behind these declarations were most often hurricane, severe storm, and biological.

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 78020

FEMA

National Risk Index

December 2025

N/A

overall risk score

Insufficient Data

Expected annual loss$6.7MVery Low

NRI social vulnerabilityN/AData Unavailable

Community resilienceN/AData Unavailable

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.

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.

$9,869,326

federal mitigation share

funded projects

105

properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program(HMGP)	13	$9,869,326

Most common hazards

Hurricane 11
Severe Storm 2
Biological 2
Tropical Storm 2

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 17 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
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 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

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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 U.S. Virgin Islands'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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