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Gonzales County, Texas

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

Total declarations
22
1967 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$4.2M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
782 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4781
May 17, 2024
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.

Utilities$1.9M
Roads and Bridges$884K
Emergency Protective Measures$295K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$166K
Debris Removal$144K
Buildings and Equipment$115K
Direct Administrative Costs$51K
Management Costs$24K
Total PA obligated$3.6M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations782
IHP / household aid$554K
Housing assistance$260K
Other needs assistance$294K
NFIP claims paid$6.4M
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 2020Gonzales County

COVID-19

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

HURRICANE HARVEY

DR-4332-TX · Aug 23, 2017 to Sep 15, 2017
$1.2MPA obligated
611Registrations
$303KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
FireJul 2011Gonzales County

WILDFIRES

DR-1999-TX · Apr 6, 2011 to Aug 29, 2011
$15KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
FireMar 2008Gonzales County

WILDFIRES

EM-3284-TX · Mar 14, 2008 to Sep 1, 2008
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Gonzales County

Gonzales County, Texas has 22 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1967 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by flood. That is close to the Texas average of 21 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $4.2M, 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 219 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.