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San Jacinto County, Texas

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

Total declarations
32
1973 to 2025
Tracked FEMA aid
$50.8M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Hurricane
19,827 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-5573
Mar 20, 2025
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.

Roads and Bridges$5.7M
Debris Removal$4.1M
Emergency Protective Measures$989K
Buildings and Equipment$640K
Management Costs$186K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$133K
Utilities$44K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$3K
Total PA obligated$11.8M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations19,827
IHP / household aid$39.0M
Housing assistance$27.5M
Other needs assistance$11.5M
NFIP claims paid$10.2M
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 2020San Jacinto County

COVID-19

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

HURRICANE IKE

DR-1791-TX · Sep 7, 2008 to Oct 2, 2008
$4.7MPA obligated
3,220Registrations
$2.6MHousehold aid
IA, PA, HMPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for San Jacinto County

San Jacinto County, Texas has 32 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2025. 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 $50.8M, 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 491 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.