FEMA Disaster Declarations — Connecticut
The most recent FEMA declaration for Connecticut is FM-5542-CT (Hawthorne Fire), a fire management declaration made on 24 October 2024 for 2 areas. It does not include assistance for individual households. Connecticut has had 1 declaration in the last two years.
Hawthorne Fire FM-5542-CT
Fire management · Fire · declared 24 Oct 2024 · incident began 21 Oct 2024
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
2 designated areas: New Haven (County)(in (P)MSA 1160,5480,8880), Hartford (County)(in PMSA 1170,3280,5440)
What a declaration means for you
- Major disaster (DR) unlocks the widest federal help; emergency (EM) covers protective measures, usually before or during an event; fire management (FM) pays firefighting costs.
- "Households can apply" means Individual Assistance: if your county is listed, apply at DisasterAssistance.gov, in the FEMA App or on 1-800-621-3362.
- Counties are often added days or weeks after the first declaration — check back if yours is missing.
- Beware of scams: FEMA staff never charge a fee to apply or to inspect your home.
What this page shows, and what it misses
Presidential disaster, emergency and fire management declarations from FEMA's open data, grouped from one row per designated area into one entry per declaration. Two years are shown for a state. State-level declarations and Small Business Administration or USDA disaster designations are separate and not listed here.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), OpenFEMA Dataset: Disaster Declarations Summaries - v2, retrieved from https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v2/DisasterDeclarationsSummaries on October 18, 2026, 10:25 PM EDT. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).