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Taos County, New Mexico

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

Total declarations
10
1973 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$1.2M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
39 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4529
Apr 5, 2020
Cross-link

Need the flood-zone side of the story?

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.

Water Control Facilities$602K
Emergency Protective Measures$354K
Buildings and Equipment$36K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$11K
Roads and Bridges$11K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$8K
Total PA obligated$1.0M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations39
IHP / household aid$164K
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$164K
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 2020Taos County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4529-NM · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$170KPA obligated
39Registrations
$164KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Taos County

COVID-19

EM-3460-NM · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Taos County

Taos County, New Mexico has 10 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by severe storm. That is close to the New Mexico average of 12 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $1.2M, 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.