Vermont: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

Vermont has recorded 45 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 39 major disasters, 6 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #34 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

6.2%

Declaration-request denial rate

#34

National rank by declarations

45.2

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Severe Storm 26
Flood 10
Hurricane 3
Biological 2
Severe Ice Storm 2
Tropical Storm 1
Snowstorm 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 45 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Sep 26, 2024	DR-4826-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 11, 2024	DR-4816-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storms And Flooding
Aug 20, 2024	DR-4810-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Aug 8, 2024	EM-3609-VT	EM	Tropical Storm	Tropical Depression Debby
Apr 19, 2024	DR-4770-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm
Mar 2, 2024	DR-4762-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Oct 6, 2023	DR-4744-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jul 14, 2023	DR-4720-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Jul 10, 2023	EM-3595-VT	EM	Flood	Flooding
Mar 20, 2023	DR-4695-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Sep 29, 2021	DR-4621-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storm And Flooding
Aug 22, 2021	EM-3567-VT	EM	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Henri
Apr 8, 2020	DR-4532-VT	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3437-VT	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Jan 17, 2020	DR-4474-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Jun 14, 2019	DR-4445-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jul 30, 2018	DR-4380-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Jan 2, 2018	DR-4356-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Aug 16, 2017	DR-4330-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jul 29, 2015	DR-4232-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm And Flooding
Feb 3, 2015	DR-4207-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm
Jun 11, 2014	DR-4178-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jan 29, 2014	DR-4163-VT	DR	Severe Ice Storm	Severe Winter Storms
Aug 2, 2013	DR-4140-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jun 13, 2013	DR-4120-VT	DR	Flood	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jun 22, 2012	DR-4066-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm, Tornado, And Flooding
Nov 8, 2011	DR-4043-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 1, 2011	DR-4022-VT	DR	Hurricane	Tropical Storm Irene
Aug 29, 2011	EM-3338-VT	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Jul 8, 2011	DR-4001-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jun 15, 2011	DR-1995-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Dec 22, 2010	DR-1951-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm
Jan 14, 2009	DR-1816-VT	DR	Severe Ice Storm	Severe Winter Storm
Sep 12, 2008	DR-1790-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Aug 15, 2008	DR-1784-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, A Tornado, And Flooding
Jul 15, 2008	DR-1778-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Aug 3, 2007	DR-1715-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
May 4, 2007	DR-1698-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 23, 2004	DR-1559-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 12, 2003	DR-1488-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jul 12, 2002	DR-1428-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Apr 10, 2001	EM-3167-VT	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Jan 18, 2001	DR-1358-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Jul 27, 2000	DR-1336-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Nov 10, 1999	DR-1307-VT	DR	Severe Storm	Tropical Storm Floyd

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Vermont, 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.

18,018

Valid registrations

10,404

Households approved

$71M

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$53M
Rental assistance	$8M
Other needs	$9M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$149M

Federal mitigation share

551

Projects funded

405

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	499	$130M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	23	$9M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	23	$8M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	4	$2M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	2	$206K

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 3 declaration requests from Vermont since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 6.2%. This is the President denying a governor or tribal leader's request for a declaration, tracked in a separate FEMA dataset from approved declarations, and is not the same thing as an individual being denied assistance under an approved declaration.

Date	Type	Hazard
Aug 22, 2025	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Jan 4, 2019	Major Disaster	Snowstorm
Sep 4, 2014	Major Disaster	Flood

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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.