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Calhoun County, South Carolina

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

Total declarations
30
1977 to 2026
Tracked FEMA aid
$4.0M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Hurricane
1,042 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-3632
Jan 23, 2026
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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$2.4M
Emergency Protective Measures$480K
Debris Removal$178K
Roads and Bridges$151K
Buildings and Equipment$39K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$14K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$6K
Management Costs$3K
Total PA obligated$3.3M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations1,042
IHP / household aid$666K
Housing assistance$446K
Other needs assistance$220K
NFIP claims paid$10K
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.

HurricaneSep 2024Calhoun County

HURRICANE HELENE

DR-4829-SC · Sep 25, 2024 to Oct 7, 2024
$292KPA obligated
8Registrations
$13KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneNov 2022Calhoun County

HURRICANE IAN

DR-4677-SC · Sep 25, 2022 to Oct 4, 2022
$85KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 2022Calhoun County

HURRICANE IAN

EM-3585-SC · Sep 25, 2022 to Oct 4, 2022
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Calhoun County

COVID-19

EM-3470-SC · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneOct 2017Calhoun County

HURRICANE IRMA

DR-4346-SC · Sep 6, 2017 to Sep 13, 2017
$8KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 1989Calhoun County

HURRICANE HUGO

DR-843-SC · Sep 21, 1989 to Sep 22, 1989
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IA, PAPrograms
DroughtAug 1977Calhoun County

DROUGHT

EM-3047-SC · Aug 4, 1977
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Calhoun County

Calhoun County, South Carolina has 30 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1977 to 2026. The dominant hazard type is hurricane, followed by severe ice storm. That is close to the South Carolina average of 26 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $4.0M, 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 5 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.