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Howard County, Iowa

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

Total declarations
23
1968 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$10.3M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
172 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4796
Jun 24, 2024
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$6.3M
Roads and Bridges$2.0M
Emergency Protective Measures$621K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$549K
Debris Removal$287K
Water Control Facilities$145K
Management Costs$6K
Direct Administrative Costs$6K
Total PA obligated$10.0M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations172
IHP / household aid$360K
Housing assistance$250K
Other needs assistance$110K
NFIP claims paid$0
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 2020Howard County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4483-IA · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$22KPA obligated
16Registrations
$99KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Howard County

COVID-19

EM-3480-IA · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Howard County

Howard County, Iowa has 23 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1968 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by flood. That is close to the Iowa average of 19 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $10.3M, 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.