OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations — Every Federal Disaster, Emergency And Fire Management Declaration By State And County Since 1953

DatasetCSV.GZOpenDisastersFemaEmergency ManagementClimate RiskCountiesUSFree

70,401 declaration-area rows covering 5,264 federally declared disasters from 1953-05-02 to 2026-09-01: one row per designated county, parish, reservation or statewide area with disaster number, state and FIPS codes, FEMA region, declaration type (DR major disaster, EM emergency, FM fire management assistance), declaration date, 27 incident types (severe storm, hurricane, flood, fire, tornado, biological and more), incident begin and end dates, title, fiscal year and whether the Individuals and Households, Individual Assistance, Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation programmes were declared, from the OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (v2) as of 2026-09-06.

Use Cases

County-level natural-hazard exposure for insurers, lenders and munis
Disaster-frequency trends by incident type and state
Event studies around federal declarations
Joining hazard history to population and economic panels by FIPS

Methodology

Paged fetch of the v2 DisasterDeclarationsSummaries endpoint (10,000 records a page, ordered by record id, explicit $select); timestamps reduced to ISO dates; de-duplicated on record id; sorted by declaration date, disaster number, state and county.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. OpenFEMA refreshes the summaries as declarations are issued and amended, typically within a day; refresh weekly.

Attribution

Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2 (fema.gov/openfema); US government work, public domain. FEMA and the federal government cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from it after the data has been retrieved from OpenFEMA.

Schema

name	type
disaster_number	integer
state	string
county	string
fips_state_code	integer
fips_county_code	integer
fema_region	integer
declaration_type	string
declaration_date	date
incident_type	string
incident_begin_date	date
incident_end_date	date
declaration_title	string
fy_declared	integer
ih_program_declared	boolean
ia_program_declared	boolean
pa_program_declared	boolean
hm_program_declared	boolean
tribal_request	boolean

Sample Data

state	county	fema_region	fy_declared	incident_type	tribal_request	disaster_number	fips_state_code	declaration_date	declaration_type	declaration_title	incident_end_date	hm_program_declared	ia_program_declared	ih_program_declared	incident_begin_date	pa_program_declared
GA	Statewide	4	1953	Tornado	false	1	13	1953-05-02	DR	TORNADO	1953-05-02	true	true	false	1953-05-02	true
TX	Statewide	6	1953	Tornado	false	2	48	1953-05-15	DR	TORNADO & HEAVY RAINFALL	1953-05-15	true	true	false	1953-05-15	true
LA	Statewide	6	1953	Flood	false	3	22	1953-05-29	DR	FLOOD	1953-05-29	true	true	false	1953-05-29	true
MI	Statewide	5	1953	Tornado	false	4	26	1953-06-02	DR	TORNADO	1953-06-02	true	true	false	1953-06-02	true
MT	Statewide	8	1953	Flood	false	5	30	1953-06-06	DR	FLOODS	1953-06-06	true	true	false	1953-06-06	true

Get this via API

# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations — Every Federal Disaster, Emergency and Fire Management Declaration by State and County since 1953' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations — Every Federal Disaster, Emergency and Fire Management Declaration by State and County since 1953' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

Free

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Details

Date Range1953-05-02 — 2026-09-01

Rows70,401

Size766 KB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

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