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Webster County, Mississippi

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

Total declarations
22
1973 to 2026
Tracked FEMA aid
$7.3M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
410 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$2.6M
Debris Removal$2.0M
Buildings and Equipment$983K
Roads and Bridges$457K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$109K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$72K
Utilities$71K
Management Costs$35K
Total PA obligated$6.3M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations410
IHP / household aid$936K
Housing assistance$599K
Other needs assistance$337K
NFIP claims paid$109K
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.

HurricaneOct 2021Webster County

HURRICANE IDA

DR-4626-MS · Aug 28, 2021 to Sep 1, 2021
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneAug 2021Webster County

HURRICANE IDA

EM-3569-MS · Aug 28, 2021 to Sep 1, 2021
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Webster 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 Webster County

Webster County, Mississippi has 22 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2026. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by hurricane. That is close to the Mississippi average of 26 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $7.3M, 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 24 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.