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Oakland County, Michigan

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

Total declarations
15
1975 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$163.4M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
39,199 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4757
Feb 8, 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.

Emergency Protective Measures$83.1M
Debris Removal$3.7M
Management Costs$2.5M
Utilities$1.1M
Buildings and Equipment$379K
Roads and Bridges$11K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$5K
Total PA obligated$90.7M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations39,199
IHP / household aid$72.7M
Housing assistance$46.2M
Other needs assistance$26.5M
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 2020Oakland County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4494-MI · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$82.1MPA obligated
3,613Registrations
$20.8MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Oakland County

COVID-19

EM-3455-MI · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
OtherSep 2003Oakland County

POWER OUTAGE

EM-3189-MI · Aug 14, 2003 to Aug 17, 2003
$953KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
WinterJan 2001Oakland County

SNOW

EM-3160-MI · Dec 11, 2000 to Dec 31, 2000
$1.1MPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Oakland County

Oakland County, Michigan has 15 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1975 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by flood. That is above the Michigan average of 10 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $163.4M, 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.