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Washington D.C.: Federal Disaster Declarations

Name: Washington D.C. FEMA disaster declarations (FY2000 to FY2025)
Creator: Disaster Data

Washington D.C. has recorded 19 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 12 major disasters, 7 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is hurricane. It ranks #51 nationally by total declarations.

Declarations since FY2000

Major disasters (DR)

Emergencies (EM)

Fire management (FM)

Requests denied

0.0%

Denial rate

#51

National rank by declarations

31.5

Avg days to a decision

Browse all 1 jurisdictions in Washington D.C., each with its full declaration history and a ready-to-use mitigation-plan table →

Most common hazards

Hurricane 6
Severe Storm 6
Other 2
Biological 2
Snowstorm 2
Earthquake 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 19 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Jan 11, 2021	EM-3553-DC	EM	Other	59Th Presidential Inauguration
Mar 29, 2020	DR-4502-DC	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3447-DC	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Mar 4, 2016	DR-4260-DC	DR	Snowstorm	Snowstorm
Dec 5, 2012	DR-4096-DC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Sandy
Oct 28, 2012	EM-3352-DC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Sandy
Jul 31, 2012	DR-4073-DC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms
Nov 8, 2011	DR-4044-DC	DR	Earthquake	Earthquake
Sep 28, 2011	DR-4036-DC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Aug 28, 2011	EM-3337-DC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Irene
Mar 24, 2010	DR-1890-DC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storms And Snowstorms
Mar 3, 2010	DR-1882-DC	DR	Snowstorm	Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
Jan 13, 2009	EM-3300-DC	EM	Other	56Th Presidential Inauguration
Sep 7, 2005	EM-3226-DC	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Sep 20, 2003	DR-1493-DC	DR	Hurricane	Hurricane Isabel
Mar 14, 2003	EM-3178-DC	EM	Severe Storm	Snow
Aug 16, 2001	DR-1389-DC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding And Mudslides
Aug 17, 2000	DR-1338-DC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Thunderstorms
Apr 10, 2000	DR-1325-DC	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm

Denied requests

No declaration requests from Washington D.C. were turned down in complete fiscal years through FY2025.

Declarations not attributed to a specific locality

1 declaration in Washington D.C. applied statewide, or to areas FEMA did not tie to a single county or equivalent, such as wildfire management zones. They are included in the state totals above but do not appear on any individual jurisdiction page.

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Jan 13, 2009	EM-3300-DC	EM	Other	56Th Presidential Inauguration

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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.