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DeKalb County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
12
1973 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$11.5M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
946 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4489
Mar 26, 2020
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$8.3M
Management Costs$108K
Utilities$108K
Roads and Bridges$82K
Debris Removal$62K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$60K
Buildings and Equipment$44K
Total PA obligated$8.8M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations946
IHP / household aid$2.8M
Housing assistance$1.8M
Other needs assistance$974K
NFIP claims paid$4.5M
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 2020DeKalb County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$7.4MPA obligated
137Registrations
$726KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020DeKalb County

COVID-19

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

SNOW

EM-3269-IL · Nov 30, 2006 to Dec 1, 2006
$276KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for DeKalb County

DeKalb County, Illinois has 12 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by severe storm. That is close to the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $11.5M, 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 403 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.