Home / Texas / Bell County
County page

Bell County, Texas

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

Total declarations
23
1974 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$35.4M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Fire
16,998 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4781
May 17, 2024
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.

Open FloodZoneMap.org
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$10.3M
Debris Removal$5.8M
Buildings and Equipment$657K
Management Costs$339K
Roads and Bridges$239K
Utilities$152K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$27K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$4K
Total PA obligated$17.5M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations16,998
IHP / household aid$17.8M
Housing assistance$6.3M
Other needs assistance$11.5M
NFIP claims paid$14.0M
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 2020Bell County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4485-TX · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$1.4MPA obligated
761Registrations
$3.8MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Bell County

COVID-19

EM-3458-TX · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneSep 2008Bell County

HURRICANE IKE

EM-3294-TX · Sep 7, 2008 to Sep 26, 2008
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
FireMar 2008Bell County

WILDFIRES

EM-3284-TX · Mar 14, 2008 to Sep 1, 2008
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneSep 2005Bell County

HURRICANE RITA

DR-1606-TX · Sep 23, 2005 to Oct 14, 2005
$83KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 2005Bell County

HURRICANE RITA

EM-3261-TX · Sep 20, 2005 to Oct 14, 2005
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Bell County

Bell County, Texas has 23 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1974 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is fire, followed by hurricane. That is close to the Texas average of 21 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $35.4M, 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 497 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.