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Mercer County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
15
1965 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$7.7M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
145 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4489
Mar 26, 2020
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.

Roads and Bridges$4.5M
Emergency Protective Measures$2.0M
Debris Removal$163K
Management Costs$120K
Utilities$92K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$83K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$61K
Buildings and Equipment$0
Total PA obligated$7.1M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations145
IHP / household aid$624K
Housing assistance$461K
Other needs assistance$163K
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 2020Mercer County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$57KPA obligated
23Registrations
$117KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Mercer County

COVID-19

EM-3435-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
FloodMay 2001Mercer County

FLOODING

DR-1368-IL · Apr 18, 2001 to May 29, 2001
$830KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PA, HMPrograms
FloodJun 1969Mercer County

FLOODING

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

Disaster history context for Mercer County

Mercer County, Illinois has 15 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1965 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by snowstorm. That is close to the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $7.7M, 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 61 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.