Wisconsin: Federal Disaster Declarations

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

Wisconsin has recorded 25 federal disaster and emergency declarations since FY2000 (through FY2025): 21 major disasters, 4 emergencies, and 0 fire-management declarations. Its most common hazard is severe storm. It ranks #47 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

16.7%

Declaration-request denial rate

#47

National rank by declarations

40.8

Avg days to a decision

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Most common hazards

Severe Storm 11
Flood 7
Snowstorm 3
Biological 2
Hurricane 1
Tornado 1

All declarations on record

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

Showing 25 declarations

Date	Number	Type	Hazard	Title
Sep 11, 2025	DR-4892-WI	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, And Mudslides
Apr 4, 2020	DR-4520-WI	DR	Biological	Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 13, 2020	EM-3454-WI	EM	Biological	Covid-19
Mar 11, 2020	DR-4477-WI	DR	Flood	Severe Winter Storm And Flooding
Aug 27, 2019	DR-4459-WI	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Oct 18, 2018	DR-4402-WI	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, And Landslides
Aug 10, 2018	DR-4383-WI	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, And Flooding
Oct 7, 2017	DR-4343-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, And Mud
Oct 20, 2016	DR-4288-WI	DR	Flood	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Mudslides
Aug 9, 2016	DR-4276-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Aug 8, 2013	DR-4141-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Flooding, And Mudslides
Aug 2, 2012	DR-4076-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Apr 5, 2011	DR-1966-WI	DR	Snowstorm	Severe Winter Storm And Snowstorm
Oct 21, 2010	DR-1944-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Aug 11, 2010	DR-1933-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Jun 14, 2008	DR-1768-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding
Mar 19, 2008	EM-3285-WI	EM	Snowstorm	Record Snow And Near Record Snow
Aug 26, 2007	DR-1719-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 13, 2005	EM-3249-WI	EM	Hurricane	Hurricane Katrina Evacuation
Jun 18, 2004	DR-1526-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
Sep 10, 2002	DR-1432-WI	DR	Tornado	Severe Storms, Tornadoes And Flooding
Jul 19, 2002	DR-1429-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms And Flooding
May 11, 2001	DR-1369-WI	DR	Flood	Flooding, Severe Storms And Tornadoes
Jan 24, 2001	EM-3163-WI	EM	Snowstorm	Snow
Jun 24, 2000	DR-1332-WI	DR	Severe Storm	Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding

Individual Assistance to households

FEMA Individual Assistance to households across Wisconsin, 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.

174,053

Valid registrations

125,861

Households approved

$486M

Total IHP approved

Assistance type	Approved amount
Repair and replacement	$209M
Rental assistance	$64M
Other needs	$212M

Hazard mitigation funded

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

$145M

Federal mitigation share

579

Projects funded

1,146

Properties mitigated

Program	Projects	Federal share obligated
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)	367	$114M
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM)	161	$13M
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)	14	$10M
Legislative Pre-Disaster Mitigation (LPDM)	9	$5M
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)	28	$2M

Denied requests

FEMA turned down 5 declaration requests from Wisconsin since FY2000, a declaration-request denial rate of 16.7%. 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 13, 2025	Major Disaster	Other
Sep 2, 2016	Major Disaster	Severe Storm
Jul 23, 2014	Major Disaster	Freezing
Aug 25, 2005	Major Disaster	Tornado
Sep 22, 2000	Major Disaster	Severe Storm

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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.