Open data · 2026-07-25
County FEMA disaster declaration summary
The exact per-county dataset behind every /county/ page on PlainHazard -- downloadable, citable, and free to reuse.
- 2,791
- Counties covered
- 10,738
- Total disasters
- 5,976
- Major declarations
In one line
Every U.S. county's FEMA disaster-declaration history (2,791 counties, 1973–2026): total declarations, major (federally-significant) declarations, the most common incident type, and the first/latest declaration year -- the same figures rendered on every county page, packaged as a real downloadable file.
Provenance
- Original source
- FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (public domain)
- Derived presentation license
- CC0 (no rights reserved)
- Data vintage
- 2026-07-25
- Coverage
- 2,791 U.S. counties, 1973–2026
Every number in this download matches the corresponding county page exactly -- no re-aggregation, no rounding beyond what's already shown. See methodology for the full derivation.
Every figure on PlainHazard is rendered directly from FEMA federal disaster data, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or national statistics report, the data & editorial changelog, or report a data error.