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Yakima County, Washington

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

Total declarations
35
1964 to 2025
Tracked FEMA aid
$6.0M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Fire
259 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-3629
Dec 12, 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.

Emergency Protective Measures$4.3M
Roads and Bridges$239K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$176K
Debris Removal$15K
Utilities$2K
Total PA obligated$4.7M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations259
IHP / household aid$1.3M
Housing assistance$0
Other needs assistance$1.3M
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.

FireJul 2024Yakima County

RETREAT FIRE

FM-5521-WA · Jul 25, 2024 to Aug 23, 2024
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Yakima County

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

DR-4481-WA · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$4.1MPA obligated
259Registrations
$1.3MHousehold aid
PA, HMPrograms
BiologicalMar 2020Yakima County

COVID-19

EM-3427-WA · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
FireAug 2018Yakima County

HAWK FIRE

FM-5269-WA · Aug 10, 2018 to Aug 17, 2018
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PA, HMPrograms
FireAug 2015Yakima County

WILDFIRES

EM-3372-WA · Aug 13, 2015 to Sep 10, 2015
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
FireAug 2004Yakima County

MUD LAKE FIRE

FM-2546-WA · Aug 12, 2004 to Aug 16, 2004
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
EarthquakeMar 2001Yakima County

EARTHQUAKE

DR-1361-WA · Feb 28, 2001 to Mar 16, 2001
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
IAPrograms
DroughtMar 1977Yakima County

DROUGHT

EM-3037-WA · Mar 31, 1977
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms