Public Records Utility

Every FEMA disaster declaration, organized at the county level.

Search for any U.S. county and see its disaster history, the dominant hazard pattern, how often FEMA declared aid, what public assistance was obligated, and how much individual help was approved.

67.4KCounty declarations loaded
1959First declaration year
$229.7BTracked FEMA dollars
3.3KCounties with records
Primary incident types

Hazards people are already searching for.

These are the disaster categories that drive the most county-level searches. Each type page rolls up every declaration, the states most affected, and total FEMA aid tracked.

Related property-risk lookup

Need flood-zone context for the same county?

Disaster history tells you what happened. FloodZoneMap.org tells you what FEMA’s flood maps say about the land right now — zone designations, insurance requirements, and map revision status for any address.

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Most disaster-prone counties

The 100 U.S. counties with the most FEMA declarations, ranked nationally.

Most disaster-prone states

Every state ranked by total county-level declaration count.

Browse by state

Jump straight into county pages.

Every state page rolls up the counties with the heaviest disaster history so you can move from national patterns to local details quickly.

Alabama1,731 declarations · 67 countiesAlaska205 declarations · 28 countiesArizona250 declarations · 15 countiesArkansas1,816 declarations · 75 countiesCalifornia1,650 declarations · 58 countiesColorado649 declarations · 64 countiesConnecticut244 declarations · 8 countiesDelaware52 declarations · 3 countiesDistrict of Columbia23 declarations · 1 countiesFlorida2,702 declarations · 67 countiesGeorgia2,757 declarations · 159 countiesHawaii99 declarations · 5 countiesIdaho350 declarations · 44 countiesIllinois1,311 declarations · 102 countiesIndiana1,576 declarations · 92 countiesIowa1,910 declarations · 99 countiesKansas1,883 declarations · 105 countiesKentucky3,351 declarations · 120 countiesLouisiana2,640 declarations · 64 countiesMaine471 declarations · 16 countiesMaryland470 declarations · 24 countiesMassachusetts406 declarations · 14 countiesMichigan793 declarations · 83 countiesMinnesota1,541 declarations · 87 countiesMississippi2,118 declarations · 82 countiesMissouri2,823 declarations · 115 countiesMontana586 declarations · 56 countiesNebraska1,554 declarations · 93 countiesNevada211 declarations · 17 countiesNew Hampshire319 declarations · 10 countiesNew Jersey623 declarations · 21 countiesNew Mexico411 declarations · 33 countiesNew York1,521 declarations · 62 countiesNorth Carolina2,403 declarations · 100 countiesNorth Dakota1,372 declarations · 53 countiesOhio1,289 declarations · 88 countiesOklahoma2,482 declarations · 77 countiesOregon584 declarations · 36 countiesPennsylvania1,245 declarations · 67 countiesRhode Island115 declarations · 5 countiesSouth Carolina1,175 declarations · 46 countiesSouth Dakota1,235 declarations · 65 countiesTennessee2,037 declarations · 95 countiesTexas5,277 declarations · 254 countiesUtah240 declarations · 29 countiesVermont403 declarations · 14 countiesVirginia2,715 declarations · 133 countiesWashington944 declarations · 39 countiesWest Virginia1,330 declarations · 55 countiesWisconsin866 declarations · 72 countiesWyoming131 declarations · 23 counties
Year pages

Recent declaration years.

Each year page summarizes how many declarations landed, which states were hit, and which disaster type dominated.

Where the data comes from

Federal datasets, organized for county-level lookup.

All data is sourced from FEMA's OpenFEMA API and the National Flood Insurance Program. Nothing is estimated or modeled — these are official federal records.

Disaster declarations & assistance

FEMA's disaster declaration summaries, public assistance project records, and individual housing assistance tables — covering both homeowners and renters.

  • Every county page shows a complete declaration timeline with aid amounts.
  • Public assistance and individual assistance are broken out separately.

Flood insurance & IHP registrations

NFIP flood insurance claims and policy data by county, plus validated Individual and Households Program registrations aggregated by disaster.

  • See how many flood insurance claims a county has filed and in which years.
  • IHP registration counts show how many households sought federal aid per disaster.
Frequently asked

Search intent the site is built to answer.

What makes this different from FEMA's own disaster search tools?
FEMA publishes the raw data, but its public tools are hard to browse county by county. DisasterLookup groups declarations, assistance, and spending into one county page with direct historical context.
Does this cover more than floods?
Yes. Floods are only one slice of FEMA declarations. DisasterLookup covers hurricanes, severe storms, fires, winter events, earthquakes, droughts, and other disaster types.
Why link to FloodZoneMap.org?
Disaster history and flood-zone risk answer different questions. DisasterLookup owns county-level disaster history. FloodZoneMap.org owns parcel-level flood-zone context and NFIP map interpretation.