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Pearl River County, Mississippi

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

Total declarations
36
1965 to 2026
Tracked FEMA aid
$159.9M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Hurricane
26,447 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.

Debris Removal$89.5M
Buildings and Equipment$13.0M
Emergency Protective Measures$5.0M
Roads and Bridges$4.4M
Utilities$2.0M
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$1.3M
Management Costs$34K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$15K
Total PA obligated$115.2M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations26,447
IHP / household aid$44.7M
Housing assistance$34.0M
Other needs assistance$10.8M
NFIP claims paid$16.8M
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 2020Pearl River County

COVID-19

EM-3474-MS · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Pearl River County

Pearl River County, Mississippi has 36 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1965 to 2026. The dominant hazard type is hurricane, followed by severe storm. That is above the Mississippi average of 26 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $159.9M, 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 803 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.