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Macon County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
11
1974 to 2023
Tracked FEMA aid
$5.4M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Biological
249 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4728
Aug 15, 2023
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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$1.9M
Emergency Protective Measures$1.9M
Roads and Bridges$64K
Buildings and Equipment$26K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$14K
Management Costs$7K
Total PA obligated$3.9M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations249
IHP / household aid$1.5M
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$1.5M
NFIP claims paid$1.4M
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 2020Macon County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$1.5MPA obligated
249Registrations
$1.5MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Macon County

COVID-19

EM-3435-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
TornadoeApr 1974Macon County

TORNADOES

DR-427-IL · Apr 11, 1974
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Macon County

Macon County, Illinois has 11 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1974 to 2023. The dominant hazard type is biological, followed by biological. That is close to the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $5.4M, 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 208 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.