FEMA Disaster Declarations Scraper

Pull the full history of US FEMA disaster declarations from the official OpenFEMA record: major disasters, emergencies and fire management declarations, filtered by state, incident type, declaration type, disaster number, date and fiscal year. Optionally enrich every disaster with federal recovery funding totals and a plain-English AI impact summary.

Here is one real result (disaster 4673, Hurricane Ian, with the funding add-on enabled), showing the fields the actor returns:

{
  "femaDeclarationString": "DR-4673-FL",
  "disasterNumber": 4673,
  "declarationType": "DR",
  "declarationTypeLabel": "Major Disaster",
  "state": "FL",
  "region": 4,
  "incidentType": "Hurricane",
  "declarationTitle": "HURRICANE IAN",
  "declarationDate": "2022-09-29T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fyDeclared": 2022,
  "incidentBeginDate": "2022-09-23T00:00:00.000Z",
  "incidentEndDate": "2022-11-04T00:00:00.000Z",
  "designatedArea": null,
  "designatedAreas": ["Lee (County)", "Charlotte (County)", "Collier (County)", "Sarasota (County)"],
  "fipsStateCode": "12",
  "fipsCountyCode": "071",
  "programsDeclared": ["IH", "IA", "PA", "HM"],
  "individualAssistance": true,
  "individualsAndHouseholds": true,
  "publicAssistance": true,
  "hazardMitigation": true,
  "totalNumberIaApproved": 387146,
  "totalAmountIhpApproved": 1150179701.7,
  "totalAmountHaApproved": 782193893.08,
  "totalAmountOnaApproved": 367985808.62,
  "totalObligatedAmountPa": 2910499266.12,
  "totalObligatedAmountHmgp": 243771438.48,
  "totalFederalObligated": 4304450406.3,
  "aiImpactSummary": "Hurricane Ian struck Florida from September 23 to November 4, 2022, causing widespread devastation. The declaration DR-4673-FL activated Individual Assistance, Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation programs, with over $4.3 billion in federal funds obligated for housing, infrastructure and mitigation.",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-16T17:36:37.964Z",
  "error": null
}

What you can do with it

• Pull every declaration for a state, incident type or fiscal year in seconds.
• Collapse a multi-county disaster into one row with all counties in a designatedAreas array, or keep one row per declared area.
• Add real federal recovery funding totals (IHP, Housing Assistance, Other Needs, Public Assistance, HMGP) that the declarations list itself does not carry.
• Generate a ready-to-read AI impact and recovery summary per disaster.

Input

Field	Type	Description
state	string	Two-letter state/territory code, e.g. FL, TX, PR.
incidentType	string	Exact incident type, e.g. Hurricane, Flood, Fire, Severe Storm, Tornado.
declarationType	select	DR (Major Disaster), EM (Emergency), FM (Fire Management).
disasterNumber	integer	A single FEMA disaster number, e.g. 4673.
declaredFrom / declaredTo	string	Declaration date range (YYYY-MM-DD).
fyDeclared	integer	Federal fiscal year, e.g. 2024.
individualAssistanceOnly	boolean	Only declarations where IA was declared.
publicAssistanceOnly	boolean	Only declarations where PA was declared.
customFilter	string	Advanced raw OpenFEMA OData filter, appended with AND.
dedupeByDisaster	boolean	Collapse to one row per disaster number, counties in designatedAreas.
orderBy	select	Sort order (newest declaration first by default).
includeFunding	boolean	Paid add-on: federal funding totals per disaster.
withAiSummary	boolean	Paid add-on: AI impact and recovery summary per disaster.
maxResults	integer	Max records to collect. Free plans are capped at 10 per run.

Output

Field	Description
femaDeclarationString	Declaration string, e.g. DR-4673-FL.
disasterNumber	FEMA disaster number.
declarationType / declarationTypeLabel	Code and label (Major Disaster / Emergency / Fire Management).
state, region	State/territory code and FEMA region.
incidentType, declarationTitle	Incident type and disaster title.
declarationDate, fyDeclared	Declaration date and fiscal year.
incidentBeginDate, incidentEndDate	Incident period.
designatedArea / designatedAreas	County/area, or the array of all areas when collapsed.
fipsStateCode, fipsCountyCode, placeCode	Geographic codes.
programsDeclared	Programs declared: IH, IA, PA, HM.
individualAssistance, publicAssistance, individualsAndHouseholds, hazardMitigation	Program booleans.
totalNumberIaApproved, totalAmountIhpApproved, totalAmountHaApproved, totalAmountOnaApproved, totalObligatedAmountPa, totalObligatedAmountHmgp, totalFederalObligated	Funding add-on fields.
aiImpactSummary	AI add-on summary.
observedAt, error	Timestamp and per-record error (null on success).

Use cases

• Insurance and risk modeling: build catastrophe and loss models from a clean, complete history of declared disasters, incident types and affected counties.
• Disaster recovery and restoration lead-gen: target counties with active Individual and Public Assistance declarations for construction, roofing, water damage and remediation services.
• Grants and public funding research: track IHP, Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation dollars obligated per disaster to size markets and find funding opportunities.
• Emergency management and government: monitor new declarations by state, region and program in near real time.
• Journalism and academic research: analyze decades of federal disaster response, funding and program activation trends.
• Climate and resilience analytics: quantify the frequency, geography and cost of floods, hurricanes, wildfires and severe storms.

Billing

This actor is priced per event (pay per result). You are never charged when a request fails; an error row is returned free of charge.

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
result	$0.008	Per disaster declaration record returned.
funding	$0.008	Per disaster when the funding add-on (includeFunding) successfully fetches recovery-funding totals. Fetched and charged once per disaster, even across many declared areas.
ai_summary	$0.012	Per disaster when the AI add-on (withAiSummary) produces a usable impact summary. Charged once per disaster.

Both add-ons are opt-in, default off, and disabled for free Apify plans. Free plans are capped at 10 results per run.

Data source

Data comes from the public OpenFEMA record of US federal disaster declarations and funding summaries. Fields mirror the official record.