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Disaster Declarations Summaries is a summarized dataset describing all federally declared disasters. This dataset lists all official FEMA Disaster Declarations, beginning with the first disaster declaration in 1953 and features all three disaster declaration types: major disaster, emergency, and fire management assistance. The dataset includes declared recovery programs and geographic areas (county not available before 1964; Fire Management records are considered partial due to historical nature of the dataset).

OpenFEMA is the “agency’s data delivery platform which provides datasets to the public in open, industry standard, machine-readable formats. Datasets are available in multiple formats, including downloadable files and through an easily digestible Application Programming Interface (API). Each page includes information about the specific dataset, links to downloadable files, a data dictionary describing each field, and an endpoint link (if applicable for those datasets available via the API).”