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Otsego County, Michigan

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

Total declarations
7
1977 to 2025
Tracked FEMA aid
$902K
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Ice Storm
46 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4880
Jul 22, 2025
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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.

Debris Removal$401K
Emergency Protective Measures$272K
Roads and Bridges$8K
Management Costs$8K
Buildings and Equipment$7K
Total PA obligated$697K

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations46
IHP / household aid$206K
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$206K
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 2020Otsego County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4494-MI · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
46Registrations
$206KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Otsego County

COVID-19

EM-3455-MI · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
DroughtMar 1977Otsego County

DROUGHT

EM-3035-MI · Mar 2, 1977
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Otsego County

Otsego County, Michigan has 7 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1977 to 2025. The dominant hazard type is severe ice storm, followed by biological. That is below the Michigan average of 10 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $902K, 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.