Home / Alabama / Walker County
County page

Walker County, Alabama

County-level FEMA declaration history, assistance rollups, and flood insurance context for Walker County.

Total declarations
25
1973 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$17.1M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
3,675 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-3618
Sep 26, 2024
Cross-link

Need the flood-zone side of the story?

The same county on FloodZoneMap.org covers flood-zone context, map interpretation, and related flood insurance questions that sit adjacent to this disaster-history page.

Open FloodZoneMap.org
Federal spending

Public + individual assistance structure

Public assistance totals come from FEMA project-level obligations. Individual assistance totals prioritize the validated or intake totals without double counting both sources together.

Public assistance

Infrastructure repair, debris removal, emergency measures, and related project obligations.

Debris Removal$8.2M
Roads and Bridges$892K
Emergency Protective Measures$871K
Buildings and Equipment$334K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$147K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$99K
Utilities$82K
Management Costs$16K
Total PA obligated$10.6M

Individual assistance

Registrations, housing assistance, and other-needs dollars surfaced through the FEMA assistance datasets.

Tracked registrations3,675
IHP / household aid$6.5M
Housing assistance$3.9M
Other needs assistance$2.6M
NFIP claims paid$0
Timeline

Every declaration on record for this county

Ordered newest to oldest so recent search intent is handled first, without losing the long historical tail.

HurricaneSep 2020Walker County

HURRICANE SALLY

EM-3545-AL · Sep 14, 2020 to Sep 16, 2020
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Walker County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4503-AL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
186Registrations
$1.0MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Walker County

COVID-19

EM-3472-AL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneSep 2017Walker County

HURRICANE IRMA

EM-3389-AL · Sep 8, 2017 to Sep 14, 2017
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneSep 2004Walker County

HURRICANE IVAN

DR-1549-AL · Sep 13, 2004 to Sep 30, 2004
$0PA obligated
284Registrations
$399KHousehold aid
IA, HMPrograms
DroughtJul 1977Walker County

DROUGHT

EM-3045-AL · Jul 20, 1977
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
TornadoeApr 1974Walker County

TORNADOES

DR-422-AL · Apr 4, 1974
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Walker County

Walker County, Alabama has 25 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by hurricane. That is close to the Alabama average of 26 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $17.1M, split between public infrastructure repair and individual household assistance.

Public assistance covers debris removal, emergency protective measures, and infrastructure repair managed through FEMA project obligations. Individual assistance includes housing aid, other-needs grants, and validated registrations reported through the IHP datasets. These figures reflect what FEMA's open datasets report — actual disbursements to individuals and local agencies may differ from the obligation totals shown here.