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Harding County, South Dakota

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

Total declarations
15
1976 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$93K
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
0 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4527
Apr 5, 2020
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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.

Roads and Bridges$63K
Emergency Protective Measures$27K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$2K
Buildings and Equipment$551
Total PA obligated$93K

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations0
IHP / household aid$0
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$0
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 2020Harding County

COVID-19

EM-3475-SD · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Harding County

Harding County, South Dakota has 15 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1976 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by snowstorm. That is below the South Dakota average of 19 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $93K, 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 1 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.