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Shelby County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
10
1990 to 2021
Tracked FEMA aid
$1.9M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Snowstorm
29 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-3577
Dec 13, 2021
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$696K
Emergency Protective Measures$519K
Roads and Bridges$436K
Debris Removal$50K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$796
Total PA obligated$1.7M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations29
IHP / household aid$190K
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$190K
NFIP claims paid$64K
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 2020Shelby County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
29Registrations
$190KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Shelby County

COVID-19

EM-3435-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Shelby County

Shelby County, Illinois has 10 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1990 to 2021. The dominant hazard type is snowstorm, followed by tornado. That is below the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $1.9M, 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 3 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.