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Jackson County, Minnesota

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

Total declarations
18
1965 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$10.5M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
184 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$5.9M
Roads and Bridges$1.9M
Water Control Facilities$767K
Emergency Protective Measures$487K
Debris Removal$446K
Buildings and Equipment$109K
Management Costs$107K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$70K
Total PA obligated$9.8M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations184
IHP / household aid$763K
Housing assistance$431K
Other needs assistance$332K
NFIP claims paid$366K
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 2020Jackson County

COVID-19

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

DROUGHT

EM-3013-MN · Jun 17, 1976
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
FloodApr 1969Jackson County

FLOODING

DR-255-MN · Apr 18, 1969
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
FloodApr 1965Jackson County

FLOODING

DR-188-MN · Apr 11, 1965
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Jackson County

Jackson County, Minnesota has 18 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1965 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by severe storm. That is close to the Minnesota average of 18 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $10.5M, 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 20 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.