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Chatham County, Georgia

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

Total declarations
19
1977 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$105.1M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Hurricane
74,641 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4830
Sep 30, 2024
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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$49.1M
Emergency Protective Measures$12.2M
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$5.5M
Buildings and Equipment$1.9M
Utilities$1.0M
Roads and Bridges$748K
Water Control Facilities$584K
Management Costs$156K
Total PA obligated$71.3M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations74,641
IHP / household aid$33.8M
Housing assistance$13.0M
Other needs assistance$20.8M
NFIP claims paid$82.0M
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 2024Chatham County

HURRICANE HELENE

DR-4830-GA · Sep 24, 2024 to Oct 30, 2024
$11.7MPA obligated
34,184Registrations
$15.6MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Chatham County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4501-GA · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$804KPA obligated
999Registrations
$5.6MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Chatham County

COVID-19

EM-3464-GA · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneSep 2017Chatham County

HURRICANE IRMA

DR-4338-GA · Sep 7, 2017 to Sep 20, 2017
$6.2MPA obligated
22,763Registrations
$4.9MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneOct 2016Chatham County

HURRICANE MATTHEW

DR-4284-GA · Oct 4, 2016 to Oct 15, 2016
$47.3MPA obligated
12,829Registrations
$3.8MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
DroughtJul 1977Chatham County

DROUGHT

EM-3044-GA · Jul 20, 1977
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Chatham County

Chatham County, Georgia has 19 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1977 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is hurricane, followed by severe storm. That is close to the Georgia average of 17 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $105.1M, 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.

The NFIP flood insurance section shows 5,962 claims and 0 active policies currently tracked for this county. Flood insurance claims and disaster declarations overlap but are not the same — a county can have significant flood claims without a major disaster declaration, and vice versa.