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McDonough County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
11
1999 to 2023
Tracked FEMA aid
$3.4M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Snowstorm
653 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.

Utilities$588K
Emergency Protective Measures$493K
Debris Removal$450K
Buildings and Equipment$134K
Roads and Bridges$80K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$31K
Management Costs$31K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$21K
Total PA obligated$1.8M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations653
IHP / household aid$1.6M
Housing assistance$1.0M
Other needs assistance$590K
NFIP claims paid$133K
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 2020McDonough County

COVID-19

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

SNOW

EM-3269-IL · Nov 30, 2006 to Dec 1, 2006
$43KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for McDonough County

McDonough County, Illinois has 11 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1999 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 $3.4M, 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 16 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.