FEMA weather disaster declarations
Unique federal declarations for weather-driven incidents, 2026 year to date against the same calendar window in 2025.
Updated September 7, 2026 · Source: OpenFEMA
The trend
Both lines count from the start of the period. The 2025 line is cut at today's calendar position, so the gap between them is a like-for-like comparison rather than a full year against a partial one.
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| Period | 2026 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 12 | 10 |
| Feb | 21 | 13 |
| Mar | 28 | 41 |
| Apr | 44 | 49 |
| May | 54 | 64 |
| Jun | 72 | 78 |
| Jul | 87 | 92 |
| Aug | 116 | 102 |
| Sep | 127 | 103 |
| Oct | — | — |
| Nov | — | — |
| Dec | — | — |
Where the change is
The same year-to-date window, split by incident type. The distance between the two dots is the change — which category is driving the total is usually more useful than the total itself.
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| Incident type | 2026 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire | 64 | 67 | -3 |
| Winter Storm | 21 | 2 | +19 |
| Severe Storm | 17 | 25 | -8 |
| Flood | 11 | 8 | +3 |
| Tropical Storm | 6 | 0 | +6 |
| Straight-Line Winds | 4 | 0 | +4 |
| Typhoon | 3 | 0 | +3 |
| Hurricane | 1 | 0 | +1 |
| Severe Ice Storm | 0 | 1 | -1 |
How we count this
Counts unique disaster numbers from the OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries dataset, deduplicated across the counties named in each declaration and filtered to weather-driven incident types. The prior year is cut at the same month and day as today, so both figures cover the same slice of the calendar.
127 unique FEMA weather-related disaster declarations from January 1, 2026 through September 7, 2026, versus 103 during the same dates in 2025
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