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Bureau County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
17
1973 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$4.0M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
482 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4489
Mar 26, 2020
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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$1.0M
Roads and Bridges$844K
Emergency Protective Measures$651K
Water Control Facilities$213K
Debris Removal$105K
Buildings and Equipment$26K
Management Costs$19K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$1K
Total PA obligated$2.9M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations482
IHP / household aid$1.1M
Housing assistance$601K
Other needs assistance$481K
NFIP claims paid$244K
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 2020Bureau County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
78Registrations
$431KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Bureau County

COVID-19

EM-3435-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
WinterDec 2006Bureau County

SNOW

EM-3269-IL · Nov 30, 2006 to Dec 1, 2006
$171KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Bureau County

Bureau County, Illinois has 17 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by snowstorm. That is above the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $4.0M, 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 73 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.