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Yalobusha County, Mississippi

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

Total declarations
20
1971 to 2026
Tracked FEMA aid
$428K
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
12 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4899
Feb 6, 2026
Cross-link

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The same county on FloodZoneMap.org covers flood-zone context, map interpretation, and related flood insurance questions that sit adjacent to this disaster-history page.

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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.

Roads and Bridges$119K
Debris Removal$113K
Emergency Protective Measures$92K
Utilities$15K
Management Costs$10K
Total PA obligated$349K

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations12
IHP / household aid$80K
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$80K
NFIP claims paid$364K
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 2020Yalobusha County

COVID-19

EM-3474-MS · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
TornadoeApr 1984Yalobusha County

TORNADOES

DR-703-MS · Mar 28, 1984 to Mar 29, 1984
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Yalobusha County

Yalobusha County, Mississippi has 20 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1971 to 2026. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by severe ice storm. That is below the Mississippi average of 26 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $428K, 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 39 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.