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Jersey County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
20
1969 to 2021
Tracked FEMA aid
$2.9M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
130 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-3577
Dec 13, 2021
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$1.0M
Roads and Bridges$618K
Debris Removal$467K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$164K
Management Costs$96K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$83K
Utilities$48K
Buildings and Equipment$42K
Total PA obligated$2.6M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations130
IHP / household aid$362K
Housing assistance$75K
Other needs assistance$287K
NFIP claims paid$24.4M
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 2020Jersey County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$682KPA obligated
45Registrations
$279KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Jersey County

COVID-19

EM-3435-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
FloodJun 1969Jersey County

FLOODING

DR-262-IL · Jun 6, 1969
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Jersey County

Jersey County, Illinois has 20 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1969 to 2021. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by severe storm. That is above the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $2.9M, 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 1,869 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.