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Van Buren County, Iowa

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

Total declarations
16
1965 to 2022
Tracked FEMA aid
$1.7M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
97 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4642
Feb 23, 2022
Cross-link

Need the flood-zone side of the story?

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$576K
Emergency Protective Measures$251K
Debris Removal$160K
Water Control Facilities$158K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$120K
Buildings and Equipment$80K
Utilities$73K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$35K
Total PA obligated$1.5M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations97
IHP / household aid$213K
Housing assistance$131K
Other needs assistance$82K
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 2020Van Buren 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 Van Buren County

Van Buren County, Iowa has 16 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1965 to 2022. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by flood. That is close to the Iowa average of 19 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $1.7M, 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.