US FEMA-assistance data
FEMA disaster assistance
Approved IHP housing aid to households, by disaster and by year, from FEMA OpenFEMA. Free to reuse (CC BY 4.0).
FEMA Individual Assistance · since 2002
$39.6B
Approved FEMA IHP housing assistance paid to households after federally declared disasters, 2002–2025 — across 614 disasters in 57 states and territories. About 63% went to homeowners and 37% to renters.
Source: FEMA OpenFEMA — Housing Assistance (Owners + Renters) · 2002–2025
FEMA housing assistance approved per year
Approved IHP housing aid by the year the disaster was declared (2002–2025). Totals spike in catastrophic seasons — 2005 ($8.2B) was driven by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted. The in-progress 2026 is excluded.
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FEMA housing assistance by state
Most FEMA housing aid approved since 2002
Gulf and hurricane-coast states dominate — Louisiana leads with $8.8B approved. Sort the full table below by dollars, households or disasters.
| Owners | Renters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | $8.8B | 1,839,357 | $4.5B | $4.3B | 27 |
| Florida | $6.2B | 2,658,734 | $4.2B | $2B | 40 |
| Texas | $5.2B | 1,816,170 | $3.6B | $1.6B | 33 |
| Puerto Rico | $2.6B | 1,485,718 | $2B | $612.2M | 15 |
| Mississippi | $1.8B | 387,305 | $1.1B | $679.5M | 37 |
| New York | $1.8B | 276,204 | $1.2B | $556.3M | 19 |
| Illinois | $1.4B | 370,202 | $981.1M | $432.3M | 20 |
| North Carolina | $1B | 293,758 | $743.6M | $300.8M | 18 |
| New Jersey | $1B | 194,442 | $735.3M | $282.5M | 11 |
| Michigan | $987M | 305,695 | $727.6M | $259.4M | 8 |
| California | $836.4M | 146,494 | $345.7M | $490.6M | 21 |
| Alabama | $703.9M | 244,570 | $423.1M | $280.9M | 26 |
| Georgia | $662.7M | 280,758 | $383.1M | $279.6M | 22 |
| Pennsylvania | $583.5M | 156,869 | $323.9M | $259.6M | 14 |
| South Carolina | $578.7M | 314,454 | $384.3M | $194.4M | 15 |
| Tennessee | $505.1M | 124,722 | $290.2M | $214.9M | 24 |
| Kentucky | $473.6M | 71,425 | $362.7M | $110.9M | 25 |
| Wisconsin | $410.9M | 101,803 | $262.5M | $148.4M | 9 |
| Ohio | $329.8M | 119,536 | $131.7M | $198.1M | 16 |
| Missouri | $314.5M | 62,371 | $185.1M | $129.3M | 26 |
| Iowa | $311.9M | 54,783 | $252.2M | $59.7M | 11 |
| West Virginia | $260.9M | 48,978 | $213M | $47.9M | 26 |
| Indiana | $245.8M | 63,800 | $145.3M | $100.5M | 15 |
| Guam | $196.8M | 40,578 | $116.3M | $80.5M | 3 |
| Virginia | $193.6M | 58,889 | $98M | $95.6M | 12 |
| Oklahoma | $172.9M | 29,749 | $106.3M | $66.6M | 23 |
| Massachusetts | $172.1M | 52,078 | $97.2M | $74.8M | 9 |
| Arkansas | $154.2M | 30,899 | $94.7M | $59.6M | 21 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | $125.6M | 24,895 | $73.9M | $51.7M | 7 |
| Hawaii | $124.6M | 15,062 | $52.3M | $72.3M | 8 |
| North Dakota | $114.9M | 11,982 | $99.2M | $15.7M | 4 |
| Alaska | $104.7M | 10,026 | $93.9M | $10.8M | 12 |
| Connecticut | $92.8M | 18,069 | $53.4M | $39.4M | 7 |
| Maryland | $90.4M | 17,538 | $31.6M | $58.8M | 5 |
| Colorado | $88.2M | 22,083 | $55.3M | $32.9M | 4 |
| Washington | $85.7M | 14,923 | $56M | $29.7M | 11 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | $85.5M | 20,634 | $55.8M | $29.7M | 3 |
| Minnesota | $83.4M | 15,285 | $45.9M | $37.5M | 7 |
| American Samoa | $81.4M | 23,446 | $76.9M | $4.5M | 6 |
| Rhode Island | $72.2M | 20,814 | $56.3M | $15.9M | 6 |
| Vermont | $70.5M | 10,400 | $64.8M | $5.6M | 8 |
| New Mexico | $67.9M | 8,836 | $45.8M | $22.1M | 7 |
| Kansas | $61M | 9,994 | $27.8M | $33.2M | 5 |
| Oregon | $58.1M | 6,898 | $41M | $17.1M | 4 |
| Nebraska | $51.6M | 7,715 | $32.1M | $19.5M | 6 |
| Arizona | $45.3M | 9,207 | $3.5M | $41.9M | 5 |
| South Dakota | $43.1M | 10,188 | $32M | $11.1M | 10 |
| Montana | $36.3M | 4,534 | $28.9M | $7.5M | 6 |
| Nevada | $25.4M | 4,788 | $2.6M | $22.9M | 2 |
| Maine | $22.6M | 5,186 | $15.9M | $6.7M | 6 |
| New Hampshire | $21.3M | 7,323 | $14.2M | $7.1M | 5 |
| Utah | $17.1M | 2,629 | $1.7M | $15.4M | 2 |
| Delaware | $11.2M | 1,847 | $1.7M | $9.5M | 3 |
| Idaho | $10.6M | 1,933 | $520k | $10.1M | 1 |
| FM | $8.1M | 1,763 | $8M | $83k | 1 |
| District of Columbia | $7.5M | 1,678 | $680k | $6.9M | 2 |
| Wyoming | $5.8M | 968 | $1.7M | $4.1M | 3 |
Costliest disasters for FEMA housing aid
| # | Disaster | Year | Approved IHP | Households | States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HURRICANE KATRINA DR-1603 | 2005 | $5.2B | 732,628 | AL,FL,LA,MS,NC,OK,TX |
| 2 | HURRICANE HARVEY DR-4332 | 2017 | $1.7B | 372,417 | LA,TX |
| 3 | HURRICANE MARIA DR-4339 | 2017 | $1.3B | 474,122 | PR |
| 4 | HURRICANE KATRINA DR-1604 | 2005 | $1.3B | 271,870 | AL,AR,GA,KY,LA,MS,TN |
| 5 | HURRICANE IDA DR-4611 | 2021 | $1.2B | 564,249 | LA,MS |
| 6 | HURRICANE IAN DR-4673 | 2022 | $1.2B | 386,835 | FL,OH,WV |
| 7 | HURRICANE IRMA DR-4337 | 2017 | $1B | 774,251 | FL,GA,MS,PR,SC,TX |
| 8 | HURRICANE SANDY DR-4085 | 2012 | $1B | 117,524 | NJ,NY |
| 9 | HURRICANE BERYL DR-4798 | 2024 | $935M | 739,918 | TX |
| 10 | HURRICANE MILTON DR-4834 | 2024 | $885.8M | 301,554 | FL,NC |
| 11 | HURRICANE HELENE DR-4828 | 2024 | $862.2M | 170,612 | FL |
| 12 | SEVERE STORMS AND FLOODING DR-4277 | 2016 | $775.9M | 82,905 | LA |
| 13 | HURRICANE FIONA DR-4671 | 2022 | $649M | 740,812 | PR |
| 14 | HURRICANE RITA DR-1606 | 2005 | $615.9M | 250,759 | LA,TX |
| 15 | TROPICAL STORM HELENE DR-4827 | 2024 | $566.8M | 160,939 | NC,SC |
Each row is one FEMA disaster number. Hurricane Katrina appears as several rows (DR-1603 Louisiana, DR-1604 Mississippi, and others) because FEMA declared it separately per state — to size the whole event, sum its rows. Amounts are nominal (not inflation-adjusted), so older disasters look smaller in today's dollars than they were.
Methodology & reuse
These figures come from FEMA's Individuals & Households Program (IHP) — the disaster aid FEMA pays directly to households (housing repair, rental assistance and other needs) after a federally declared disaster. We combine FEMA's Housing Assistance – Owners and Housing Assistance – Renters summary datasets into one approved-dollars total per state, year and disaster.
Approved, not disbursed: the amounts are FEMA-approved IHP dollars, which can differ from what was ultimately paid. They are nominal — not inflation-adjusted — so a 2005 dollar and a 2024 dollar are added at face value; older events look smaller than they felt at the time. Coverage begins with disasters declared in 2002 (the earliest these OpenFEMA datasets reach) — we never extend the series before it.
The year is the disaster's declaration year, joined from FEMA's Disaster Declarations Summaries. "State" includes US territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands and others), so the by-state table has 57 rows. A single event can span several disaster numbers (Hurricane Katrina is the clearest case), so the costliest-disasters table lists each disaster number separately. We independently cross-checked the per-disaster totals against FEMA's FemaWebDisasterSummaries dataset; the two agree within about 0.3%, the expected difference between OpenFEMA snapshots taken at different times.
The underlying FEMA data is US-government public domain; our charts and tables are licensed CC BY 4.0 — reuse them with attribution to DisasterStatus. This page is not endorsed by FEMA or any federal agency.
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DisasterStatus, “FEMA disaster assistance statistics” (2026). https://disasterstatus.com/statistics/fema-aid
Download the data: by year · by state · top disasters (CSV). Sources: OpenFEMA HousingAssistanceOwners · Renters · OpenFEMA terms.
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