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Cook County, Minnesota

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

Total declarations
10
1976 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$3.8M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
33 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4797
Jun 28, 2024
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$1.6M
Roads and Bridges$855K
Emergency Protective Measures$634K
Debris Removal$335K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$198K
Management Costs$6K
Buildings and Equipment$2K
Total PA obligated$3.7M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations33
IHP / household aid$132K
Housing assistance$88K
Other needs assistance$44K
NFIP claims paid$64K
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.

BiologicalApr 2020Cook County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4531-MN · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$134KPA obligated
1Registrations
$5KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Cook County

COVID-19

EM-3453-MN · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
DroughtJun 1976Cook County

DROUGHT

EM-3013-MN · Jun 17, 1976
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Cook County

Cook County, Minnesota has 10 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1976 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by flood. That is below the Minnesota average of 18 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $3.8M, 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 15 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.