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De Witt County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
11
1968 to 2023
Tracked FEMA aid
$492K
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Snowstorm
12 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4728
Aug 15, 2023
Cross-link

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The same county on FloodZoneMap.org covers flood-zone context, map interpretation, and related flood insurance questions that sit adjacent to this disaster-history page.

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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$261K
Emergency Protective Measures$138K
Utilities$48K
Management Costs$4K
Total PA obligated$451K

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations12
IHP / household aid$42K
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$42K
NFIP claims paid$377K
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 2020De Witt County

COVID-19

EM-3435-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for De Witt County

De Witt County, Illinois has 11 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1968 to 2023. The dominant hazard type is snowstorm, followed by severe storm. That is close to the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $492K, 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 59 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.