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St. Thomas Island, U.S. Virgin Islands

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

St. Thomas Island recorded 17 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 10 major disasters, 7 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is hurricane.

Highlighted: St. Thomas Island, VI

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)

Oct 2024

Most recent

The federal disaster record for St. Thomas 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 78030

FEMA

National Risk Index

December 2025

N/A

overall risk score

Insufficient Data

Expected annual loss$73.0MRelatively Moderate

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.

$59,806,839

federal mitigation share

funded projects

properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program(HMGP)	50	$46,963,963
Pre-Disaster Mitigation(PDM)	9	$12,842,876

Most common hazards

Hurricane 11
Severe Storm 2
Biological 2
Tropical Storm 2

Previous occurrences, for your mitigation plan

Every local hazard mitigation plan must document previous occurrences of each hazard. Here is that record for St. Thomas Island, sourced to OpenFEMA and refreshed weekly. Copy it straight into your plan.

Hazard	Date	FEMA declaration	Type
Tropical Storm	Oct 25, 2024	DR-4841-VI	DR
Tropical Storm	Aug 18, 2024	EM-3611-VI	EM
Hurricane	Jul 29, 2020	EM-3531-VI	EM
Biological	Apr 2, 2020	DR-4513-VI	DR
Biological	Mar 13, 2020	EM-3433-VI	EM
Hurricane	Aug 28, 2019	EM-3418-VI	EM
Hurricane	Sep 20, 2017	DR-4340-VI	DR
Hurricane	Sep 18, 2017	EM-3390-VI	EM
Hurricane	Sep 7, 2017	DR-4335-VI	DR
Hurricane	Sep 5, 2017	EM-3383-VI	EM
Severe Storm	Nov 5, 2010	DR-1948-VI	DR
Hurricane	Sep 28, 2010	DR-1939-VI	DR
Hurricane	Oct 29, 2008	DR-1807-VI	DR
Hurricane	Oct 7, 2004	DR-1567-VI	DR
Severe Storm	Dec 9, 2003	DR-1503-VI	DR
Hurricane	Nov 23, 1999	DR-1309-VI	DR
Hurricane	Nov 17, 1999	EM-3152-VI	EM

Every declaration on record

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

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); the 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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