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Kerr County, Texas

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

Total declarations
19
1978 to 2025
Tracked FEMA aid
$17.3M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Flood
3,550 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4879
Jul 6, 2025
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.

Utilities$2.8M
Emergency Protective Measures$2.2M
Roads and Bridges$1.8M
Buildings and Equipment$247K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$231K
Debris Removal$39K
Water Control Facilities$32K
Building Code Management and Enforcement$27K
Total PA obligated$7.3M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations3,550
IHP / household aid$10.0M
Housing assistance$6.7M
Other needs assistance$3.3M
NFIP claims paid$19.5M
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.

BiologicalMar 2020Kerr County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4485-TX · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
82Registrations
$352KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Kerr County

COVID-19

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

WILDFIRES

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

HURRICANE RITA

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

Kerr County, Texas has 19 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1978 to 2025. The dominant hazard type is flood, followed by fire. That is close to the Texas average of 21 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $17.3M, 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 308 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.