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Lauderdale County, Mississippi

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

Total declarations
24
1973 to 2026
Tracked FEMA aid
$54.7M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Hurricane
17,069 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4899
Feb 6, 2026
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.

Emergency Protective Measures$20.5M
Debris Removal$9.7M
Utilities$5.2M
Buildings and Equipment$1.1M
Management Costs$705K
Roads and Bridges$411K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$134K
Water Control Facilities$101K
Total PA obligated$37.8M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations17,069
IHP / household aid$16.9M
Housing assistance$10.3M
Other needs assistance$6.6M
NFIP claims paid$3.4M
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 2020Lauderdale County

COVID-19

EM-3474-MS · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneSep 2004Lauderdale County

HURRICANE IVAN

DR-1550-MS · Sep 13, 2004 to Sep 20, 2004
$2.3MPA obligated
1,899Registrations
$1.7MHousehold aid
IA, PA, HMPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Lauderdale County

Lauderdale County, Mississippi has 24 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2026. The dominant hazard type is hurricane, followed by snowstorm. That is close to the Mississippi average of 26 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $54.7M, 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 271 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.