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Grimes County, Texas

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

Total declarations
27
1993 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$11.8M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Hurricane
3,094 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4798
Jul 9, 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$5.3M
Roads and Bridges$1.9M
Emergency Protective Measures$1.1M
Debris Removal$709K
Management Costs$96K
Buildings and Equipment$50K
Direct Administrative Costs$20K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$9K
Total PA obligated$9.1M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations3,094
IHP / household aid$2.7M
Housing assistance$2.2M
Other needs assistance$488K
NFIP claims paid$1.4M
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.

HurricaneJul 2024Grimes County

HURRICANE BERYL

DR-4798-TX · Jul 5, 2024 to Jul 9, 2024
$2.1MPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Grimes County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4485-TX · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
17Registrations
$84KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Grimes County

COVID-19

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

HURRICANE HARVEY

DR-4332-TX · Aug 23, 2017 to Sep 15, 2017
$609KPA obligated
403Registrations
$650KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
FireSep 2011Grimes County

WILDFIRES

DR-4029-TX · Aug 30, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011
$377KPA obligated
26Registrations
$36KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 2008Grimes County

HURRICANE IKE

DR-1791-TX · Sep 7, 2008 to Oct 2, 2008
$2.8MPA obligated
1,401Registrations
$472KHousehold aid
IA, PA, HMPrograms
FireMar 2008Grimes County

WILDFIRES

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

HURRICANE RITA

DR-1606-TX · Sep 23, 2005 to Oct 14, 2005
$124KPA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
HurricaneSep 2005Grimes 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 Grimes County

Grimes County, Texas has 27 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1993 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 $11.8M, 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 89 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.