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Polk County, Nebraska

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

Total declarations
20
1967 to 2025
Tracked FEMA aid
$1.1M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
9 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4868
May 21, 2025
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.

Utilities$634K
Roads and Bridges$348K
Emergency Protective Measures$47K
Management Costs$18K
Debris Removal$15K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$1K
Buildings and Equipment$803
Emergency Work Donated Resources$550
Total PA obligated$1.1M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations9
IHP / household aid$72K
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$72K
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.

BiologicalApr 2020Polk County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4521-NE · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$25KPA obligated
9Registrations
$72KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Polk County

COVID-19

EM-3483-NE · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Polk County

Polk County, Nebraska has 20 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1967 to 2025. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by flood. That is close to the Nebraska average of 17 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $1.1M, 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.