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Fort Bend County, Texas

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

Total declarations
28
1983 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$333.9M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Hurricane
225,285 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4798
Jul 9, 2024
Cross-link

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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$50.7M
Debris Removal$40.9M
Water Control Facilities$11.9M
Buildings and Equipment$8.2M
Utilities$3.2M
Direct Administrative Costs$1.5M
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$1.3M
Roads and Bridges$831K
Total PA obligated$119.0M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations225,285
IHP / household aid$214.8M
Housing assistance$116.3M
Other needs assistance$98.5M
NFIP claims paid$450.5M
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.

HurricaneJul 2024Fort Bend County

HURRICANE BERYL

DR-4798-TX · Jul 5, 2024 to Jul 9, 2024
$15.5MPA obligated
114,508Registrations
$87.6MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Fort Bend County

COVID-19

EM-3458-TX · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneAug 2017Fort Bend County

HURRICANE HARVEY

DR-4332-TX · Aug 23, 2017 to Sep 15, 2017
$48.3MPA obligated
58,351Registrations
$97.6MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 2008Fort Bend County

HURRICANE IKE

DR-1791-TX · Sep 7, 2008 to Oct 2, 2008
$23.2MPA obligated
27,502Registrations
$5.6MHousehold aid
IA, PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 2005Fort Bend County

HURRICANE RITA

DR-1606-TX · Sep 23, 2005 to Oct 14, 2005
$626KPA obligated
3,776Registrations
$1.2MHousehold aid
IA, PA, HMPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Fort Bend County

Fort Bend County, Texas has 28 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1983 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is hurricane, followed by flood. That is above the Texas average of 21 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $333.9M, 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 7,558 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.