FEMA Records
22
Above median
Puerto Rico · FEMA + NOAA + National Risk Index
Hormigueros Municipio, PR
22 FEMA disaster declarations (1975-2025), with a FEMA National Risk Index rating of null. Most common hazard: Hurricane.
- 22
- FEMA declarations
- 12
- Major disasters
- Hurricane
- Top hazard
FEMA OpenFEMA declaration desk
County FIPS 72067 · Hormigueros Municipio 22 declarations · rank 1354/3,266
DECL-HEAVY · MAJOR-MID · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · NRI-UNK · ACT-HIGH · TYPE-LEAD · VS-ST-BELOW
- DECL-HEAVY 22
- MAJOR-MID 55%
- RANK-LOWER #1,354
- PHOTO-FINISH Hardy
- NRI-UNK NRI n/a
- ACT-HIGH High
- TYPE-LEAD Hurricane
- VS-ST-BELOW -19%
Nearest declaration peer: Hardy, WV (0 declaration gap)
FEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 filing stamps for this county register. Read with this county → · Puerto Rico state profile
Hormigueros Municipio in the declaration-count neighbourhood
FEMA declaration records among Hormigueros Municipio and nearest peers by total count
- Los Angeles · largest
Los Angeles · largest
88 declarations
- Hardy · near 22
Hardy · near
22 declarations
- Hormigueros · this county 22
Hormigueros · this county
22 declarations
- Prairie · near 22
Prairie · near
22 declarations
- St. Francis · near 22
St. Francis · near
22 declarations
- Ujelang · smallest 1
Ujelang · smallest
1 declarations
What this shows Hormigueros Municipio carries 22 FEMA declaration records, ranked 1354 of 3,266 counties in this registry.
How Hormigueros Municipio's FEMA declaration count compares nationally
Hormigueros Municipio vs. all counties in this dataset
FEMA disaster declarations, all-time · Hormigueros Municipio
22 Top 43% higher than 57% of 3,266 counties
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more counties. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source FEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 · 2026-08-25
Which hazard drives modeled loss here?
FEMA's modeled annual dollar loss for Hormigueros Municipio is led by Hurricane (about $6.1M Expected Annual Loss, Historical Loss Ratio Relatively High), while Earthquake carries the highest National Risk Index rating (null). EAL and risk score use different inputs; they need not agree.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025 release) - Expected Annual Loss vs composite risk rating by hazard.
What does Hormigueros Municipio's hazard record show?
FEMA National Risk Index
Even the county's top-rated hazard, Earthquake, only reaches on FEMA's scale, none of the 18 modeled hazards stand out here. FEMA's modeled frequency puts that hazard at roughly once every 21 years here.
Reading the federal records together
No paid-claim row for this county appears in the NFIP county table used by PlainHazard. That absence is not evidence that flooding never occurred: the register observes claims under federal flood-insurance policies, not uninsured losses, emergency reports, or every flood outside the program. The FEMA declaration history below is therefore the available federal-action record on this page.
Start with the state benchmark: a Puerto Rico county averages 27.1 federal declaration records, while Hormigueros Municipio has 22. The gap is 19% below that mean. Fewer entries indicate a quieter history of recorded federal actions, not immunity from a hazard and not a prediction about what happens next.
55 /100
Historical Activity Index
High historical activity
Hormigueros Municipio, PR · PlainHazard-derived composite from federal records
This 0–100 index is an explicit PlainHazard composite from FEMA declaration history only on the county surface (this DB has no county-level NOAA damage row) . It is not FEMA's National Risk Index, not a forecast, and not a safety, insurance, or preparedness rating. Open the calculator · Methodology
FEMA Declarations (1953–present) High
16/30
22 OpenFEMA declarations, full ingest window (1.1x national county average)
County Disaster Density Moderate
10/25
22 declarations (0.8x state county average of 27)
Major Disaster Share High
14/25
12 of 22 declarations are major disasters (55%)
Hazard Diversity Very High
15/20
6 different disaster types declared in Hormigueros Municipio
FEMA NRI 8-hazard radar - Hormigueros Municipio
How to read this radar
Each axis: NRI risk rating (Very Low-Very High) on a 0-100 scale. Rounder = broad exposure; spiky = one or two hazards dominate.
Major Disaster share
55%
Major-heavy
County FIPS
72067
PR state code
Source: FEMA National Risk Index Per-county per-hazard ratings, December 2025 release
How often does each hazard strike Hormigueros Municipio?
FEMA's National Risk Index models a historical event count and an annualized frequency for each hazard type. Most hazards are expressed as modeled occurrences per year; FEMA expresses drought and heat-wave frequency as event-days per year. These modeled frequencies are not forecasts.
| Hazard | NRI Risk Rating | Recurrence |
|---|---|---|
| Earthquake | roughly once every 21 years | |
| Hail | roughly once every 38 years | |
| Hurricane | roughly once every 5 years | |
| Heat Wave | 0.1 modeled event-days per year | |
| Riverine Flooding | roughly once every 2 years | |
| Landslide | roughly once every 2 years | |
| Lightning | an average of 68 times per year | |
| Tornado | roughly once every 2,786 years |
Source: FEMA National Risk Index Modeled annualized frequency; drought and heat wave use event-days/year, December 2025 release
Disaster Types
Hurricane 11
Severe Storm 4
Biological 2
Earthquake 2
Flood 2
Tropical Storm 1
What Hurricane declarations mean here
Hurricane is the most frequent declaration type on Hormigueros Municipio's federal record, 50% of its declarations. Atlantic tropical systems run on a defined season, 1 June to 30 November, with most activity concentrated between August and October; Pacific and territorial basins run on their own calendars. A single named storm routinely produces one declaration number covering a long corridor of counties at once, well inland as well as on the coast, which is why an affected county's count can jump by several in one year without several separate events having occurred.
One practical distinction matters when reading these records: a tropical declaration usually bundles wind, storm surge and inland rainfall flooding under a single incident, but the insurance behind them is split. Wind damage falls to property insurers, while flood and surge damage is covered only under a separate National Flood Insurance Program policy. That is why a county can show heavy declaration activity and a comparatively small NFIP claims record, or the reverse.
Declaration counts describe past federal action. They are a record of what was declared, not a forecast of future hazard probability.
Declaration Types
What DR / EM / FM mean
FEMA categorizes declarations as Major Disasters (DR), Emergencies (EM), or Fire Management Assistance (FM).
Major Disaster - 12 54.5%
of all 22 declarations
Emergency - 10 45.5%
of all 22 declarations
FEMA Declarations Timeline
| Year | Declarations | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | |
| 2024 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 7 | |
| 2019 | 1 | |
| 2017 | 2 | |
| 2011 | 1 | |
| 2004 | 1 | |
| 2001 | 1 | |
| 2000 | 1 | |
| 1998 | 1 | |
| 1986 | 1 | |
| 1979 | 1 | |
| 1975 | 1 | |
Disaster Declarations
How the 22 FEMA declarations break into federal action codes (DR / EM / FM). Same DISTINCT grain as the table below.
Download these 22 declarations as CSV . FEMA source data is public domain; our derived presentation is CC0.
| DR# | Title | Type | Incident | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4850 | TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO | DR | Tropical Storm | 2024-11-27 |
| 3610 | TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO | EM | Severe Storm | 2024-08-13 |
| 4671 | HURRICANE FIONA | DR | Hurricane | 2022-09-21 |
| 3583 | TROPICAL STORM FIONA | EM | Hurricane | 2022-09-18 |
| 4560 | HURRICANE ISAIAS | DR | Hurricane | 2020-09-09 |
| 3537 | TROPICAL STORM LAURA | EM | Hurricane | 2020-08-22 |
| 3532 | POTENTIAL TROPICAL CYCLONE NINE | EM | Hurricane | 2020-07-29 |
| 4493 | COVID-19 PANDEMIC | DR | Biological | 2020-03-27 |
| 3452 | COVID-19 | EM | Biological | 2020-03-13 |
| 4473 | EARTHQUAKES | DR | Earthquake | 2020-01-16 |
| 3426 | EARTHQUAKES | EM | Earthquake | 2020-01-07 |
| 3417 | TROPICAL STORM DORIAN | EM | Severe Storm | 2019-08-27 |
| 4339 | HURRICANE MARIA | DR | Hurricane | 2017-09-20 |
| 3391 | HURRICANE MARIA | EM | Hurricane | 2017-09-18 |
| 3326 | HURRICANE IRENE | EM | Hurricane | 2011-08-22 |
| 1552 | TROPICAL STORM JEANNE AND RESULTING LANDSLIDES AND MUDSLIDES | DR | Severe Storm | 2004-09-17 |
| 1372 | SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES | DR | Severe Storm | 2001-05-16 |
| 3151 | HURRICANE LENNY | EM | Hurricane | 1999-11-17 |
| 1247 | HURRICANE GEORGES - 18 SEP 98 | DR | Hurricane | 1998-09-24 |
| 746 | SEVERE STORMS, FLOODING & MUDSLIDES | DR | Flood | 1985-10-10 |
Show 2 earlier declaration records
| DR# | Title | Type | Incident | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 597 | HURRICANE DAVID | DR | Hurricane | 1979-09-02 |
| 483 | TROPICAL STORM ELIOISE | DR | Flood | 1975-09-19 |
Storm Events in Puerto Rico
Statewide NOAA context only. PlainHazard does not currently attribute these state totals to Hormigueros Municipio.
| Storm Type | Events | Fatalities | Injuries | Property Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood | 907 | 31 | 14 | $19.0B |
| Flood | 858 | 2 | 0 | $2.0M |
| Debris Flow | 297 | 0 | 0 | $3.8M |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 194 | 1 | 3 | $1.7M |
| Excessive Heat | 184 | 0 | 0 | $0 |
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database State-level aggregated data, 2015-2025
FEMA National Risk Index
Overall Risk
Score: N/A/100
Expected Annual Loss
Very Low
$13.5M/year
Social Vulnerability
Data Unavailable
Community Resilience
Data Unavailable
Hazard Risk Breakdown
Earthquake
Hail
Hurricane
Heat Wave
Riverine Flooding
Landslide
Lightning
Tornado
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (NRI) Ratings reflect relative scores among all US counties. Data: hazards.fema.gov/nri
The model's sharpest exposure here: Earthquake
Earthquake is the model's clearest example of a hazard with no season and no warning. Its expected loss is driven less by how often shaking occurs than by how much of the building stock predates modern seismic codes, so exposure can be high in places where nothing has happened for a long time.
Worth noting for Hormigueros Municipio: the model and the federal record do NOT point at the same hazard. Earthquake carries the highest modeled rating, while the county's declaration history is led by Hurricane. That is not a contradiction, the two measure genuinely different things. Declarations record federal ACTION, which requires damage costly enough to exceed state and local capacity; the Risk Index models EXPECTED annual loss across all 18 hazards whether or not any declaration ever followed. A hazard can be the county's largest modeled exposure and never once have driven a declaration.
National Risk Index ratings are modeled estimates of expected annual loss, not predictions of what will happen in any given year.
Data-matched county comparisons
Hormigueros Municipio's closest FEMA peer: Ferry County, WA
Comparisons use published FEMA declaration fields for Hormigueros Municipio. Record similarity, not a safety rating.
Closest declaration profiles
Hormigueros Municipio shows 22 FEMA declarations, led by Hurricane.
Similar Major-disaster share
Hormigueros Municipio: 12 of 22 of its declarations are Major.
How these peers are chosen
Cohort: Published U.S. county equivalents outside the source state or territory. Each metric keeps six ETL candidates; three unique destinations are shown after de-duplicating across axes. Declaration-volume ranking combines count and Major-disaster share and prefers a different leading incident type; Major-share ranks the Major fraction adjusted for volume; NRI ranks the modeled composite score only.
Retained FEMA snapshot feed for Hormigueros Municipio - capture-dated entries only.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by NRI score & FEMA declaration volume
Two PlainHazard-derived comparison paths for Hormigueros Municipio: nearest out-of-state National Risk Index composite and nearest FEMA declaration count (floor ≥5 records). Record similarity only, not a forecast of the next hazard.
Similar declaration volume
Nearest out-of-state counties by FEMA declaration count. This county: 22. NRI peers are excluded so the two link sets stay distinct.
Further reading for this county
Most disaster-prone counties
With 22 FEMA declarations, Hormigueros Municipio sits in the high-volume declaration band - see how that count ranks against other U.S. counties.
More PlainHazard guides
- Most disaster-prone counties - U.S. counties ranked by FEMA declaration totals.
- Understanding disaster data - declarations vs storm events vs NRI scores.
- Preparing for natural disasters - household checklist (not county-specific advice).
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most common disaster type in Hormigueros Municipio?
The most common disaster type in Hormigueros Municipio is Hurricane, with 11 declarations. Other disaster types include Severe Storm (4), Biological (2), Earthquake (2).
How does Hormigueros Municipio's FEMA declaration record compare with the Puerto Rico average?
The typical Puerto Rico county has 27.1 FEMA declaration records; Hormigueros Municipio has 22, or 19% fewer. Against the national county mean of 20.7, this county's total is 6% higher. The comparison is historical and says nothing about the probability of a future event.
How many major FEMA disaster declarations has Hormigueros Municipio received?
Hormigueros Municipio has received 12 major disaster declarations, representing 55% of all 22 disaster declarations.
Does FEMA's top risk-rated hazard match the highest Expected Annual Loss in Hormigueros Municipio?
No. In Hormigueros Municipio, Earthquake has the highest National Risk Index rating (null), while Hurricane leads Expected Annual Loss at about $6.1M. FEMA's risk score and dollar-loss model use different inputs, so the leaders often differ.
What was the worst year for disasters in Hormigueros Municipio?
The most active year for disaster declarations in Hormigueros Municipio was 2020, with 7 declarations. The county has FEMA disaster data spanning 1975 to 2025.
What is the FEMA National Risk Index score for Hormigueros Municipio?
According to the FEMA National Risk Index, Hormigueros Municipio, Puerto Rico has an overall risk score of N/A out of 100 (null). Social vulnerability here rates Data Unavailable, while community resilience comes in at Data Unavailable. The Expected Annual Loss (EAL) score is Very Low, representing $13.5M in annualized losses.
Which natural hazard poses the greatest risk to Hormigueros Municipio?
The top hazard flagged by FEMA's NRI for Hormigueros Municipio is Earthquake (risk rating: null). Other significant hazards include Hail (null) and Hurricane (null). FEMA's modeled event frequency puts earthquake here at roughly once every 21 years. These scores are based on FEMA's analysis of historical event frequency, exposed assets, and community vulnerability.
Data Sources & Methodology
Disaster declaration data comes from the FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 API, which includes all federally declared disasters, emergencies, and fire management assistance grants.
Storm event data is sourced from the NOAA Storm Events Database (2015-2025), which tracks significant weather events including thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, and winter storms.
This data is provided for informational purposes only. FEMA disaster declarations represent federal response actions and may not capture all local emergencies or weather events.
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