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Lyon County, Kansas

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

Total declarations
27
1965 to 2025
Tracked FEMA aid
$6.7M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
189 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4891
Sep 11, 2025
Cross-link

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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$3.4M
Roads and Bridges$1.2M
Emergency Protective Measures$702K
Buildings and Equipment$295K
Debris Removal$292K
Management Costs$239K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$113K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$72K
Total PA obligated$6.2M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations189
IHP / household aid$457K
Housing assistance$204K
Other needs assistance$253K
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 2020Lyon County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4504-KS · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$280KPA obligated
56Registrations
$236KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Lyon County

COVID-19

EM-3481-KS · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
FloodJun 1965Lyon County

FLOODING

DR-201-KS · Jun 23, 1965
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Lyon County

Lyon County, Kansas has 27 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1965 to 2025. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by flood. That is above the Kansas average of 18 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $6.7M, 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.