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Portage County, Wisconsin

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

Total declarations
12
1973 to 2020
Tracked FEMA aid
$3.3M
PA + assistance signals
Most common type
Severe Storm
120 registrations tracked
Most recent event
DR-4520
Apr 4, 2020
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.

Debris Removal$1.4M
Roads and Bridges$504K
Utilities$271K
Emergency Protective Measures$169K
Buildings and Equipment$52K
Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items$50K
Management Costs$41K
Emergency Work Donated Resources$38K
Total PA obligated$2.6M

Individual assistance

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

Tracked registrations120
IHP / household aid$659K
Housing assistance$30K
Other needs assistance$628K
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.

BiologicalMar 2020Portage County

COVID-19

EM-3454-WI · Jan 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
DroughtJun 1976Portage County

DROUGHT

EM-3014-WI · Jun 17, 1976
$0PA obligated
0Registrations
$0Household aid
PAPrograms
About this county

Disaster history context for Portage County

Portage County, Wisconsin has 12 FEMA disaster declarations on record, spanning from 1973 to 2020. The dominant hazard type is severe storm, followed by flood. That is close to the Wisconsin average of 12 declarations per county. Total tracked FEMA obligations for this county exceed $3.3M, 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.