🌪️ FEMA Disaster Declarations Scraper

🚀 Collect federal disaster declarations from FEMA with incident types, program flags, affected areas, and FIPS codes. 60,000+ historical records dating back to 1953, delivered in under a minute.

FEMA Disaster Declarations Scraper pulls structured disaster declaration records from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Each record includes the disaster number, declaration string, declaration type (Major Disaster, Emergency, Fire Management), incident type, declaration date, incident begin and end dates, affected areas, FIPS state and county codes, FEMA region number, and program activation flags for Individual Assistance, Public Assistance, and Hazard Mitigation. You can filter by state, incident type, and fiscal year.

Insurance analysts use this to model risk by analyzing historical disaster frequency and severity per region. Journalists investigate response patterns and declaration trends. Construction firms assess natural disaster exposure for project sites. Government agencies track program activations across regions and time periods. Researchers study climate impacts through decades of standardized federal disaster data.

Target	FEMA Disaster Declarations (1953 to present)
Use Cases	Insurance risk modeling, disaster pattern analysis, construction site assessment, emergency response research

📋 What it does

• 📋 Declaration records. Disaster numbers, declaration strings, titles, and types for every federal disaster.
• 🌊 Incident details. Types (hurricane, flood, fire, tornado, earthquake), begin dates, and end dates.
• 🏛️ Program flags. Which FEMA programs were activated: Individual Assistance, Public Assistance, Hazard Mitigation.
• 📍 Geographic data. State codes, FIPS codes, county codes, designated areas, and FEMA regions.
• 🔍 Filtering. Narrow results by state, incident type, or fiscal year.

Each record captures a single disaster declaration with 25+ fields covering what happened, when, where, and which federal programs were activated in response.

💡 Why it matters: FEMA's website stores 60,000+ historical disaster declarations. Browsing and downloading them manually through the portal is slow. This actor delivers the full dataset in structured format, filtered to your needs, in seconds.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: declarationDate, declarationTitle, declarationType, disasterNumber, femaDeclarationString, fyDeclared, hmProgramDeclared, iaProgramDeclared, ihProgramDeclared, incidentBeginDate, incidentEndDate, incidentType, paProgramDeclared, state. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: FEMA's dataset goes back to 1953 and contains over 60,000 declarations. A full download of all historical records finishes in under a minute. Use filters to narrow results to specific states, incident types, or fiscal years.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the FEMA Disaster Declarations Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Choose state, incident type, fiscal year, and max items.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FEMA, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or any federal agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.

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