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Powder River County, Montana

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

Total declarations
11
1978 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$343K
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Fire
5 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-5345
Sep 3, 2020
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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$261K
Emergency Protective Measures$30K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$8K
Debris Removal$2K
Total PA obligated$301K

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations5
IHP / household aid$42K
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$42K
NFIP claims paid$0
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 2020Powder River County

COVID-19

EM-3476-MT · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
FloodMay 2019Powder River County

FLOODING

DR-4437-MT · Mar 20, 2019 to Apr 10, 2019
$144KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
FireAug 2012Powder River County

WILDFIRE

DR-4074-MT · Jun 25, 2012 to Jul 10, 2012
$34KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Powder River County

Powder River County, Montana has 11 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1978 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is fire, followed by flood. That is close to the Montana average of 10 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $343K, 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.