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Meade County, Kansas

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

Total declarations
15
1973 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$8.7M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
95 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4824
Sep 24, 2024
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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$8.1M
Roads and Bridges$251K
Debris Removal$89K
Emergency Protective Measures$50K
Management Costs$12K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$5K
Buildings and Equipment$2K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$480
Total PA obligated$8.5M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations95
IHP / household aid$213K
Housing assistance$166K
Other needs assistance$47K
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 2020Meade County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4504-KS · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
8Registrations
$40KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Meade County

COVID-19

EM-3481-KS · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Meade County

Meade County, Kansas has 15 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by severe ice storm. That is close to the Kansas average of 18 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $8.7M, 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.

The NFIP flood insurance section shows 2 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.