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Union County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
15
1969 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$5.9M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
30 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.

Utilities$3.8M
Emergency Protective Measures$989K
Roads and Bridges$672K
Debris Removal$262K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$43K
Management Costs$21K
Buildings and Equipment$9K
Total PA obligated$5.8M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations30
IHP / household aid$116K
Housing assistance$6K
Other needs assistance$110K
NFIP claims paid$443K
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 2020Union County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$11KPA obligated
25Registrations
$106KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Union 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 Union County

Union County, Illinois has 15 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1969 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by flood. That is close to the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $5.9M, 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 109 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.