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Cuyahoga County, Ohio

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

Total declarations
19
1965 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$325.5M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
84,586 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4507
Mar 31, 2020
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.

Emergency Protective Measures$224.4M
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$7.5M
Management Costs$6.6M
Debris Removal$2.5M
Roads and Bridges$1.9M
Buildings and Equipment$1.2M
Utilities$1.1M
Emergency Work Donated Resources$2K
Total PA obligated$245.1M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations84,586
IHP / household aid$80.3M
Housing assistance$27.3M
Other needs assistance$53.1M
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 2020Cuyahoga County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4507-OH · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$228.6MPA obligated
3,745Registrations
$21.0MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Cuyahoga County

COVID-19

EM-3457-OH · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
OtherSep 2003Cuyahoga County

POWER OUTAGE

EM-3187-OH · Aug 14, 2003 to Aug 17, 2003
$1.3MPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Cuyahoga County

Cuyahoga County, Ohio has 19 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1965 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by flood. That is above the Ohio average of 15 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $325.5M, 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.