Federal Disaster Declaration Monitor — FEMA, By State/County
Matches FEMA federal disaster declarations against your state/county watchlist, with the specific relief programs each unlocks (Individual Assistance, Public Assistance, Hazard Mitigation) — the official after-the-fact determination, not just a weather event. Free, keyless, official OpenFEMA data.
Federal Disaster Declaration Monitor — FEMA, By State/County returns 19 documented output fields, including declarationId, femaDeclarationString, state, county and declarationType. Every field carries a declared type, a written description and an example value. 21 runs are recorded on Apify.
- 19
- Output fields
- 3
- Inputs
- 21
- Runs
- 2026-10-15
- Last run
01 — output
What it returns
Every field the extractor writes to its dataset, with its type, a written description and an example value.
| Field | Type | What it holds | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| declarationId | stringnull | Identifier of this declaration. | <declarationId> |
| femaDeclarationString | stringnull | The declaration number as FEMA formats it. | <femaDeclarationString> |
| state | stringnull | State, province or region name. | active |
| county | stringnull | County name. | Travis |
| declarationType | stringnull | Type of declaration, for example major disaster or emergency. | <declarationType> |
| declarationTypeLabel | stringnull | Human-readable label for the declaration type. | <declarationTypeLabel> |
| declarationTitle | stringnull | Official title of the declaration. | <declarationTitle> |
| incidentType | stringnull | Type of incident, as classified by the source. | <incidentType> |
| declarationDate | stringnull | Date the declaration was issued. | <declarationDate> |
| incidentBeginDate | stringnull | Start date of the incident. | <incidentBeginDate> |
| incidentEndDate | stringnull | End date of the incident. | <incidentEndDate> |
| individualAssistance | booleannull | Whether individual assistance is available for this declaration. | true |
| publicAssistance | booleannull | Whether public assistance is available for this declaration. | true |
| hazardMitigation | booleannull | Whether hazard mitigation funding is available. | true |
| assistancePrograms | stringnull | Assistance programmes available for this declaration. | <assistancePrograms> |
| watchedState | stringnull | State this run was configured to watch. | <watchedState> |
| watchedCounty | stringnull | County this run was configured to watch. | <watchedCounty> |
| status | stringnull | Outcome recorded for this row. | ok |
| verdict | stringnull | The Actor's conclusion for this row, stated in words. | pass |
02 — sample
One record
Assembled from the example values declared on the schema above, not invented at render time.
{
"declarationId": "<declarationId>",
"femaDeclarationString": "<femaDeclarationString>",
"state": "active",
"county": "Travis",
"declarationType": "<declarationType>",
"declarationTypeLabel": "<declarationTypeLabel>",
"declarationTitle": "<declarationTitle>",
"incidentType": "<incidentType>"
}03 — input
What you give it
| Input | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| watchlist | arrayrequired | State (required) and county (optional) pairs to watch. State alone watches every declaration statewide; adding a county narrows it. Example: [{"state": "CA", "county": "Calaveras"}] |
| daysBack | integeroptional | How many days of declarations to check, up to 5 years. |
| maxItems | integeroptional | Hard cap on items returned. You are never charged beyond this. |
04 — run
Run Federal Disaster Declaration Monitor on your own input
It runs in the cloud on Apify. Nothing to install, and you are billed per result returned rather than per attempt.
05 — questions
Asked before running it
18 of 19 fields described
- What does Federal Disaster Declaration Monitor — FEMA, By State/County return?
- It returns 19 documented output fields: declarationId, femaDeclarationString, state, county, declarationType, declarationTypeLabel, declarationTitle, incidentType, declarationDate, incidentBeginDate, incidentEndDate and individualAssistance. Each field declares its type, a description of what it holds, and an example value. The remaining 7 are listed in the output schema below.
- What input does Federal Disaster Declaration Monitor — FEMA, By State/County require?
- watchlist is required. A further 2 inputs are optional. The full input schema, with types and defaults, is below.
- Does Federal Disaster Declaration Monitor — FEMA, By State/County need an API key or login?
- No. None of its inputs is a credential, and it reads only public data. Nothing to sign up for before the first run.
- How do I run Federal Disaster Declaration Monitor — FEMA, By State/County?
- It runs on Apify. Start it from its listing with the inputs above, or call the Apify API with the Actor's ID. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API into your own pipeline.