What Disasters This Place Has Actually Seen
Not what's happening now — what tends to happen here. DisasterAtlasUSA pulls together the federal record: how many times a county has been under a federal disaster declaration since 1953, the hurricanes and floods and wildfires behind those declarations, and how it all trends over the decades. It's history, for people weighing a move, buying a home, or researching risk — not a forecast, and federal aid is not the same as total damages.
Start with a state
Pick a state to reach its counties and hazard histories as pages are published.
What this site covers
Every federal disaster declaration for a county since 1953, the types involved, and a count-by-year chart — "47 declarations since 1980".
Hurricanes, floods, wildfires and earthquakes by state, each as its own history.
Individual major events — a named hurricane, a large wildfire — with dates, area and the counties affected.
Counties and states by how often events of a given type have occurred, normalized where it makes sense.
The full historical archives are being loaded now. See About the Data for sources and how to read them.