Washington: Federal Disaster Declarations

Name: Washington FEMA disaster declarations (FY2000 to FY2026)
Creator: Disaster Data

Washington has recorded 33 major disaster declarations since FY2000 (through FY2026), the federal government's fullest response to an event. Alongside those sit 8 emergency declarations and 127 fire management declarations, 168 in all. Its most common hazard is fire. It ranks #22 nationally by major disasters.

Totals: FY2000 to FY2026 · Page last rebuilt Oct 25, 2026 · the current in-progress fiscal year is not included in totals

Major disasters

Emergency declarations

127

Fire management grants

168

All declarations on record

$3.7B

Federal PA obligated

Declaration requests denied

4.5%

Declaration-request denial rate

#22

National rank by major disasters

16.6

Avg days to a decision

Past 12 months

Recent declarations and aid so far

Washington has had 12 federal declarations in the past 12 months. The figures are what FEMA has reported to date and grow as recovery continues. All of them fall in complete fiscal years and are counted in the totals above.

1,552

Households approved for assistance

$17.3M

Individual Assistance approved

$6.4M

Public Assistance obligated

Declaration	Declared	Households approved	Individual Assistance	Public Assistance obligated
EM-3650-WAEmergency · Fire	Aug 3, 2026Incident period Aug 1 to 31, 2026	None reported	None reported	None reported yet
FM-5659-WAFire management · Fire	Aug 2, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
FM-5658-WAFire management · Fire	Aug 2, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
FM-5656-WAFire management · Fire	Aug 1, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
FM-5657-WAFire management · Fire	Aug 1, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
FM-5653-WAFire management · Fire	Jul 30, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
FM-5649-WAFire management · Fire	Jul 26, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
FM-5651-WAFire management · Fire	Jul 26, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
FM-5646-WAFire management · Fire	Jul 17, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
FM-5638-WAFire management · Fire	Jun 16, 2026	Not applicable	Not applicable	None reported yet
DR-4906-WAMajor disaster · Flood	Apr 7, 2026Incident period Dec 5 to 19, 2025	1,552of 2,587 registered	$17.3M	$6.4M
EM-3629-WAEmergency · Flood	Dec 12, 2025Incident period Dec 9 to 19, 2025	None reported	None reported	None reported yet

DR-4906-WA has approved 1,552 households for assistance so far, the 3rd most of any Washington disaster in FEMA's household assistance data, which begins in 2002. The most was DR-1734-WA in 2007, with 4,004. COVID-19 funeral assistance is left out of this comparison.

Individual Assistance is FEMA's Individuals and Households Program, from OpenFEMA's Housing Assistance data for owners and renters. Public Assistance is the obligated federal share from OpenFEMA's grant award activity, which usually starts posting weeks to months after a declaration. Select a declaration number to open its full event profile.

Federal Public Assistance obligated

$3.7B has been obligated to Washington in Public Assistance since FY2000.

$760M followed major disasters other than COVID-19. $2M followed emergency declarations, which cover debris removal and emergency protective work only. $3B, or 80% of the total, was COVID-19, which every state and county in the country received.

Obligated is the committed share, not necessarily spent, and can be revised as projects close out. Totals are summed from funded localities, so a declaration administered entirely at state level may not appear here.

Browse all 69 jurisdictions in Washington, each with its full declaration history, sortable and ready to copy into a mitigation plan →

Most common hazards

Fire 137
Severe Storm 15
Flood 9
Biological 3
Mud/Landslide 2
Coastal Storm 1
Earthquake 1

All declarations 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 state and 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.

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

Showing 168 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Aug 3, 2026	EM-3650-WA	EM	Fire	Wildfires
Aug 2, 2026	FM-5659-WA	FM	Fire	Autumn Lane Fire
Aug 2, 2026	FM-5658-WA	FM	Fire	Fairview Fire
Aug 1, 2026	FM-5656-WA	FM	Fire	Old Trails Fire
Aug 1, 2026	FM-5657-WA	FM	Fire	Sinlahekin Fire
Jul 30, 2026	FM-5653-WA	FM	Fire	Modrite Fire
Jul 26, 2026	FM-5649-WA	FM	Fire	Signal Peak Fire
Jul 26, 2026	FM-5651-WA	FM	Fire	Ransier Fire
Jul 17, 2026	FM-5646-WA	FM	Fire	Kaiser Canyon Fire
Jun 16, 2026	FM-5638-WA	FM	Fire	Upriver Fire
Apr 7, 2026	DR-4906-WA	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Dec 12, 2025	EM-3629-WA	EM	Flood	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 26, 2025	FM-5614-WA	FM	Fire	Lower Sugarloaf Fire
Jul 19, 2025	FM-5601-WA	FM	Fire	Burdoin Fire
Nov 26, 2024	DR-4849-WA	DR	Fire	Wildfires
Sep 24, 2024	DR-4823-WA	DR	Fire	Wildfires
Jul 26, 2024	FM-5521-WA	FM	Fire	Retreat Fire
Jul 24, 2024	FM-5518-WA	FM	Fire	Swawilla Fire
Jul 23, 2024	FM-5517-WA	FM	Fire	West White Swan Fire
Jun 23, 2024	FM-5499-WA	FM	Fire	Slide Ranch Fire
Apr 28, 2024	DR-4775-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Feb 15, 2024	DR-4759-WA	DR	Fire	Wildfires
Aug 19, 2023	FM-5481-WA	FM	Fire	Oregon Fire
Aug 18, 2023	FM-5479-WA	FM	Fire	Gray Fire
Jul 30, 2023	FM-5472-WA	FM	Fire	Eagle Bluff Fire
Jul 23, 2023	FM-5470-WA	FM	Fire	Newell Road Fire
Jul 11, 2023	FM-5469-WA	FM	Fire	Baird Springs Fire
Jul 5, 2023	FM-5468-WA	FM	Fire	Mcewan Fire
Jul 3, 2023	FM-5467-WA	FM	Fire	Tunnel Five Fire
Jan 12, 2023	DR-4682-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Oct 17, 2022	FM-5456-WA	FM	Fire	Nakia Creek Fire
Sep 10, 2022	FM-5455-WA	FM	Fire	Bolt Creek Fire
Aug 4, 2022	FM-5447-WA	FM	Fire	Lind Fire
Mar 29, 2022	DR-4650-WA	DR	Flood	Severe Winter Storms, Snowstorms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding
Jan 5, 2022	DR-4635-WA	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Dec 21, 2021	DR-4631-WA	DR	Fire	Wildfires
Aug 19, 2021	FM-5415-WA	FM	Fire	Schneider Springs Fire
Aug 18, 2021	FM-5414-WA	FM	Fire	Twentyfive Mile Fire
Aug 16, 2021	FM-5410-WA	FM	Fire	Muckamuck Fire
Aug 16, 2021	FM-5411-WA	FM	Fire	Ford Corkscrew Fire
Jul 20, 2021	FM-5401-WA	FM	Fire	Cedar Creek Fire
Jul 14, 2021	FM-5398-WA	FM	Fire	Red Apple Fire
Jul 13, 2021	FM-5397-WA	FM	Fire	Chuweah Creek Fire
Jul 6, 2021	FM-5395-WA	FM	Fire	Andrus Fire
Apr 8, 2021	DR-4593-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Feb 4, 2021	DR-4584-WA	DR	Fire	Wildfires And Straight-Line Winds
Sep 9, 2020	FM-5360-WA	FM	Fire	Sumner Grade Fire
Sep 9, 2020	FM-5359-WA	FM	Fire	Bordeaux Road Fire
Sep 8, 2020	FM-5355-WA	FM	Fire	Babb Fire
Sep 7, 2020	FM-5351-WA	FM	Fire	Cold Springs/Pearl Hill Fire
Sep 7, 2020	FM-5352-WA	FM	Fire	Apple Acres Fire
Sep 1, 2020	FM-5342-WA	FM	Fire	Evans Canyon Fire
Aug 20, 2020	FM-5337-WA	FM	Fire	Palmer Fire
Aug 17, 2020	FM-5330-WA	FM	Fire	North Brownstown Fire
Jul 28, 2020	FM-5323-WA	FM	Fire	Anglin Fire
Jul 12, 2020	FM-5320-WA	FM	Fire	Road 11 Fire
Apr 23, 2020	DR-4539-WA	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Mar 22, 2020	DR-4481-WA	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3507-WA	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3427-WA	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Mar 4, 2019	DR-4418-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, Mudslides, Tornado
Aug 17, 2018	DR-4384-WA	DR	Flood	Flooding
Aug 13, 2018	FM-5273-WA	FM	Fire	Boyd'S Fire
Aug 12, 2018	FM-5271-WA	FM	Fire	Grass Valley Fire
Aug 11, 2018	FM-5270-WA	FM	Fire	Cougar Creek Fire
Aug 11, 2018	FM-5269-WA	FM	Fire	Hawk Fire
Aug 4, 2018	FM-5266-WA	FM	Fire	Angel Springs Fire
Jul 28, 2018	FM-5261-WA	FM	Fire	Chelan Hills Fire
Jul 20, 2018	FM-5257-WA	FM	Fire	Buckshot Fire
Jul 17, 2018	FM-5254-WA	FM	Fire	Upriver Beacon Fire
Jul 10, 2018	FM-5253-WA	FM	Fire	Ryegrass Coulee Fire
Sep 2, 2017	FM-5200-WA	FM	Fire	Jolly Mountain Fire
Jun 28, 2017	FM-5187-WA	FM	Fire	South Wenas Fire
May 23, 2017	FM-5182-WA	FM	Fire	Spromberg Fire
Apr 21, 2017	DR-4309-WA	DR	Flood	Severe Winter Storms, Flooding, Landslides, Mudslides
Aug 28, 2016	FM-5152-WA	FM	Fire	Suncrest Fire
Aug 22, 2016	FM-5148-WA	FM	Fire	Wellesley Fire
Aug 22, 2016	FM-5149-WA	FM	Fire	Yale Fire
Aug 1, 2016	FM-5142-WA	FM	Fire	South Ward Gap Fire
Feb 2, 2016	DR-4253-WA	DR	Flood	Severe Winter Storm, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, Mudslides, And A T
Jan 15, 2016	DR-4249-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Oct 20, 2015	DR-4243-WA	DR	Fire	Wildfires And Mudslides
Oct 15, 2015	DR-4242-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Windstorm
Sep 14, 2015	FM-5113-WA	FM	Fire	Horsethief Butte Fire
Aug 24, 2015	FM-5109-WA	FM	Fire	Goodell Fire
Aug 21, 2015	EM-3372-WA	EM	Fire	Wildfires
Aug 21, 2015	FM-5108-WA	FM	Fire	Renner Fire
Aug 19, 2015	FM-5106-WA	FM	Fire	Twisp River Fire
Aug 15, 2015	FM-5104-WA	FM	Fire	Okanagan County Fire Complex
Aug 15, 2015	FM-5101-WA	FM	Fire	Stickpin Fire
Aug 15, 2015	FM-5103-WA	FM	Fire	Stevens County Fire Complex
Aug 14, 2015	FM-5100-WA	FM	Fire	Chelan Fire Complex
Aug 14, 2015	FM-5098-WA	FM	Fire	Nine Mile Fire
Aug 5, 2015	FM-5094-WA	FM	Fire	Highway 8 Fire
Jul 21, 2015	FM-5090-WA	FM	Fire	Blue Creek Fire
Jun 29, 2015	FM-5087-WA	FM	Fire	Sleepy Hollow Fire
Aug 11, 2014	DR-4188-WA	DR	Fire	Wildfires
Aug 6, 2014	FM-5072-WA	FM	Fire	Hansel Fire
Aug 3, 2014	FM-5071-WA	FM	Fire	Snag Canyon Fire
Jul 23, 2014	EM-3371-WA	EM	Fire	Wildfires
Jul 19, 2014	FM-5063-WA	FM	Fire	Watermelon Hill Fire
Jul 19, 2014	FM-5064-WA	FM	Fire	Saddle Mountain Fire
Jul 17, 2014	FM-5061-WA	FM	Fire	Chiwaukum Fire
Jul 17, 2014	FM-5062-WA	FM	Fire	Carlton Complex Fire
Jul 10, 2014	FM-5059-WA	FM	Fire	Mills Canyon Fire
Jul 10, 2014	FM-5058-WA	FM	Fire	Lake Spokane Fire
Apr 2, 2014	DR-4168-WA	DR	Mud/Landslide	Flooding And Mudslides
Mar 24, 2014	EM-3370-WA	EM	Mud/Landslide	Flooding And Mudslides
Aug 21, 2013	FM-5048-WA	FM	Fire	Eagle Fire
Aug 10, 2013	FM-5042-WA	FM	Fire	Mile Post 10 Fire
Jul 30, 2013	FM-5038-WA	FM	Fire	Colockum Tarps Fire
Sep 25, 2012	DR-4083-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storm, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Sep 20, 2012	FM-5020-WA	FM	Fire	Table Mountain Fire
Sep 13, 2012	FM-5018-WA	FM	Fire	Peavine Fire
Sep 12, 2012	FM-5017-WA	FM	Fire	Poison Fire
Sep 10, 2012	FM-5015-WA	FM	Fire	Byrd Canyon Fire
Sep 9, 2012	FM-5012-WA	FM	Fire	1St Canyon Fire
Sep 9, 2012	FM-5013-WA	FM	Fire	Barker Canyon Fire
Sep 6, 2012	FM-5011-WA	FM	Fire	Highway 141 Fire Complex
Aug 14, 2012	FM-5005-WA	FM	Fire	Taylor Bridge Fire
Mar 5, 2012	DR-4056-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 8, 2011	FM-2966-WA	FM	Fire	Monastery Fire Complex
Mar 25, 2011	DR-1963-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Aug 27, 2010	FM-2854-WA	FM	Fire	Slide Creek Wildfire
Jul 19, 2010	FM-2848-WA	FM	Fire	Cowiche Mills Fire
Aug 22, 2009	FM-2827-WA	FM	Fire	Dry Creek Fire Complex
Aug 22, 2009	FM-2826-WA	FM	Fire	Oden Road Fire
Jul 29, 2009	FM-2823-WA	FM	Fire	Union Valley Fire
Mar 2, 2009	DR-1825-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm And Record And Near Record Snow
Jan 30, 2009	DR-1817-WA	DR	Flood	Severe Winter Storm, Landslides, Mudslides, And Flooding
Jul 11, 2008	FM-2783-WA	FM	Fire	Spokane Valley Fire
Jul 11, 2008	FM-2784-WA	FM	Fire	Badger Mountain Fire Complex
Dec 8, 2007	DR-1734-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 21, 2007	FM-2731-WA	FM	Fire	Broughton Fire
Jul 16, 2007	FM-2714-WA	FM	Fire	Tunk Grade Fire
Jul 8, 2007	FM-2711-WA	FM	Fire	Easy Street Fire
Feb 14, 2007	DR-1682-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Winter Storm, Landslides, And Mudslides
Dec 12, 2006	DR-1671-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 11, 2006	FM-2674-WA	FM	Fire	Flick Creek Fire
Aug 22, 2006	FM-2668-WA	FM	Fire	Columbia Fire Complex
Aug 8, 2006	FM-2663-WA	FM	Fire	Valley Mill Fire
May 17, 2006	DR-1641-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, Tidal Surge, Landslides, And Mudslides
Sep 7, 2005	EM-3227-WA	EM	Coastal Storm	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Aug 7, 2005	FM-2575-WA	FM	Fire	School Fire
Aug 1, 2005	FM-2572-WA	FM	Fire	Dirty Face Fire
Aug 12, 2004	FM-2546-WA	FM	Fire	Mud Lake Fire
Aug 11, 2004	FM-2543-WA	FM	Fire	Wa-Fischer Wildfire-08-11-2004
Jul 30, 2004	FM-2537-WA	FM	Fire	Deep Harbor Fire
Jul 30, 2004	FM-2538-WA	FM	Fire	Elk Heights Fire
Jul 6, 2004	FM-2527-WA	FM	Fire	Wa-Beebe Fire-07-04-2004
Nov 7, 2003	DR-1499-WA	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 6, 2003	FM-2498-WA	FM	Fire	Wa-Needle Fire-09-06-2003
Jul 16, 2003	FM-2481-WA	FM	Fire	Wa-Okanogan City Fire-07-16-2003
Jul 12, 2003	FM-2477-WA	FM	Fire	Wa-Middle Fork Fire-07-12-2003
Jul 25, 2002	FM-2451-WA	FM	Fire	Wa - Pickens Fire - 07/24/02
Jul 20, 2002	FM-2449-WA	FM	Fire	Wa - Deer Point Fire - 07/20/02
Aug 17, 2001	FM-2378-WA	FM	Fire	Wa - Mt Leona Fire Complex - 2378
Aug 17, 2001	FM-2379-WA	FM	Fire	Wa - Rex Creek Fire Complex - 2379
Aug 16, 2001	FM-2376-WA	FM	Fire	Wa Tonasket Fire Complex 2376
Aug 16, 2001	FM-2377-WA	FM	Fire	Wa Spruce Dome Fire Complex 2377
Aug 14, 2001	FM-2373-WA	FM	Fire	Wa Brewster Fire Complex 2373
Aug 14, 2001	FM-2372-WA	FM	Fire	Wa - Virginia Lakes Complex - 2372
Aug 14, 2001	FM-2374-WA	FM	Fire	Wa - Icicle Fire Complex - 2374
Jul 28, 2001	FM-2368-WA	FM	Fire	Wa - Union Valley Fire - 07/28/01
Mar 1, 2001	DR-1361-WA	DR	Earthquake	Earthquake
Aug 25, 2000	FM-2323-WA	FM	Fire	Wa - Mule Dry Fire - 2000
Jul 22, 2000	FM-2313-WA	FM	Fire	Wa-Wildfire-07-24-2000
Feb 29, 2000	FM-2311-WA	FM	Fire	Two Fork Fire

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Washington, 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.

28,048

Valid registrations

15,156

Households approved

$90M

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$41M
Rental assistance	$11M
Other needs	$38M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$317M

Federal mitigation share

708

Projects funded

1,793

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	542	$223M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	101	$47M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	18	$31M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	28	$8M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	14	$7M
Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL)	5	$2M

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 8 declaration requests from Washington since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 4.5%. 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
Jan 14, 2025	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Oct 18, 2016	Major Disaster	Fire
Nov 3, 2015	Major Disaster	Fire
Mar 25, 2011	Major Disaster	Fire
Feb 14, 2011	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Mar 6, 2007	Emergency	Mud/Landslide
Feb 5, 2007	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Feb 6, 2004	Major Disaster	Severe Ice Storm

Declarations not attributed to a specific locality

1 declaration in Washington 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
Feb 29, 2000	FM-2311-WA	FM	Fire	Two Fork Fire

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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, ranks, and rates on this page cover complete fiscal years only. Declarations from the fiscal year still in progress are listed in each state's declaration tables and its recent-declarations panel, but are not counted in any total until the year is complete. Uses OpenFEMA data but is not endorsed by or affiliated with FEMA.

Washington: Federal Disaster Declarations

Recent declarations and aid so far

Federal Public Assistance obligated

Most common hazards

All declarations on record

Individual Assistance to households

Hazard mitigation funded

Denied requests

Declarations not attributed to a specific locality

How these numbers are built

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