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Essex County, Vermont

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

Total declarations
30
1973 to 2024
Tracked FEMA aid
$5.7M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
170 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4826
Sep 26, 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.

Roads and Bridges$4.7M
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$103K
Emergency Protective Measures$69K
Debris Removal$42K
Management Costs$18K
Utilities$16K
Buildings and Equipment$9K
Total PA obligated$4.9M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations170
IHP / household aid$825K
Housing assistance$634K
Other needs assistance$192K
NFIP claims paid$0
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.

FloodJul 2023Essex County

FLOODING

EM-3595-VT · Jul 9, 2023 to Jul 17, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
BiologicalApr 2020Essex County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4532-VT · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
2Registrations
$9KHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Essex County

COVID-19

EM-3437-VT · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
HurricaneAug 2011Essex County

HURRICANE IRENE

EM-3338-VT · Aug 26, 2011 to Sep 2, 2011
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Essex County

Essex County, Vermont has 30 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2024. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by flood. That is close to the Vermont average of 29 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $5.7M, 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.