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Worth County, Georgia

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

Total declarations
19
1974 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$6.6M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Hurricane
1,707 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4830
Sep 30, 2024
Cross-link

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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.

Roads and Bridges$1.7M
Debris Removal$1.5M
Emergency Protective Measures$1.3M
Utilities$422K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$54K
Management Costs$42K
Buildings and Equipment$41K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$37K
Total PA obligated$5.2M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations1,707
IHP / household aid$1.4M
Housing assistance$1.0M
Other needs assistance$412K
NFIP claims paid$481K
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 2024Worth County

HURRICANE HELENE

DR-4830-GA · Sep 24, 2024 to Oct 30, 2024
$1.7MPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Worth County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4501-GA · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$28KPA obligated
32Registrations
$188KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Worth County

COVID-19

EM-3464-GA · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneOct 2018Worth County

HURRICANE MICHAEL

DR-4400-GA · Oct 9, 2018 to Oct 23, 2018
$1.4MPA obligated
1,382Registrations
$732KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 2017Worth County

HURRICANE IRMA

DR-4338-GA · Sep 7, 2017 to Sep 20, 2017
$432KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 2017Worth County

HURRICANE IRMA

EM-3387-GA · Sep 7, 2017 to Sep 20, 2017
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
TornadoeApr 1974Worth County

TORNADOES

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

Disaster history context for Worth County

Worth County, Georgia has 19 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1974 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 $6.6M, 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 34 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.