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Cook County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
24
1967 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$2.0B
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
441,246 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4819
Sep 20, 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.

Emergency Protective Measures$882.5M
Debris Removal$12.7M
Buildings and Equipment$2.8M
Management Costs$2.7M
Roads and Bridges$714K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$624K
Utilities$593K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$30K
Total PA obligated$896.7M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations441,246
IHP / household aid$1.1B
Housing assistance$902.0M
Other needs assistance$246.0M
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.

BiologicalMar 2020Cook County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$840.7MPA obligated
10,356Registrations
$57.6MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Cook County

COVID-19

EM-3435-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
TornadoeApr 1967Cook County

TORNADOES

DR-227-IL · Apr 25, 1967
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms