Effingham County, Illinois
County-level FEMA declaration history, assistance rollups, and flood insurance context for Effingham County.
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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.
Individual assistance
Registrations, housing assistance, and other-needs dollars surfaced through the FEMA assistance datasets.
Every declaration on record for this county
Ordered newest to oldest so recent search intent is handled first, without losing the long historical tail.
COVID-19 PANDEMIC
COVID-19
SEVERE WINTER STORM AND SNOWSTORM
HURRICANE KATRINA EVACUATION
SEVERE STORMS, TORNADOES AND FLOODING
SEVERE STORMS AND FLOODING
Disaster history context for Effingham County
Effingham County, Illinois has 7 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1996 to 2021. The dominant hazard type is biological, followed by biological. That is below the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $884K, 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 4 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.