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Mitchell County, Georgia

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

Total declarations
18
1974 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$18.0M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
2,991 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.

Utilities$13.4M
Debris Removal$1.8M
Roads and Bridges$654K
Emergency Protective Measures$501K
Management Costs$114K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$43K
Buildings and Equipment$23K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$888
Total PA obligated$16.5M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations2,991
IHP / household aid$1.5M
Housing assistance$1.1M
Other needs assistance$399K
NFIP claims paid$2.1M
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.

BiologicalMar 2020Mitchell County

COVID-19

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

HURRICANE IRMA

DR-4338-GA · Sep 7, 2017 to Sep 20, 2017
$292KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
DroughtJul 1977Mitchell County

DROUGHT

EM-3044-GA · Jul 20, 1977
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
TornadoeApr 1974Mitchell County

TORNADOES

DR-425-GA · Apr 5, 1974
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Mitchell County

Mitchell County, Georgia has 18 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1974 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by hurricane. That is close to the Georgia average of 17 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $18.0M, 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 100 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.