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Wayne County, Illinois

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

Total declarations
8
1989 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$1.1M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Tornado
59 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.

Emergency Protective Measures$301K
Utilities$272K
Roads and Bridges$96K
Debris Removal$95K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$162
Total PA obligated$764K

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations59
IHP / household aid$334K
Housing assistance$60K
Other needs assistance$274K
NFIP claims paid$71K
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 2020Wayne County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4489-IL · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$17KPA obligated
49Registrations
$274KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Wayne 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 Wayne County

Wayne County, Illinois has 8 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1989 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is tornado, followed by severe storm. That is below the Illinois average of 13 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $1.1M, 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 12 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.