FEMA Disaster Declarations — Montana
The most recent FEMA declaration for Montana is FM-5671-MT (Sand Creek Fire), a fire management declaration made on 14 August 2026 for 1 area. It does not include assistance for individual households. Montana has had 9 declarations in the last two years.
Sand Creek Fire FM-5671-MT
Fire management · Fire · declared 14 Aug 2026 · incident began 14 Aug 2026
Public Assistance
1 designated area: Beaverhead (County)
Severe Winter Storm and Straight-Line Winds DR-4915-MT
Major disaster · Straight-Line Winds · declared 29 May 2026 · incident began 17 Dec 2025
Households can apply
1 designated area: Crow Indian Reservation
Severe Winter Storm and Straight-Line Winds DR-4914-MT
Major disaster · Winter Storm · declared 29 May 2026 · incident began 17 Dec 2025
Households can apply
1 designated area: Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Severe Winter Storm and Straight-Line Winds DR-4902-MT
Major disaster · Straight-Line Winds · declared 7 Apr 2026 · incident began 17 Dec 2025
Public Assistance
32 designated areas: Rosebud (County), Ravalli (County), Sanders (County), Pondera (County), Carbon (County), Wheatland (County), Judith Basin (County), Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Garfield (County), Powell (County), Dawson (County), Flathead (County), Broadwater (County), Sweet Grass (County), Phillips (County), Lincoln (County), Missoula (County), Glacier (County), Stillwater (County), Lake (County), Teton (County), Fort Peck Indian Reservation, McCone (County), Blaine (County), Park (County), Valley (County), Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Big Horn (County), Powder River (County), Golden Valley (County), Mineral (County)
Severe Storms and Flooding DR-4901-MT
Major disaster · Flood · declared 7 Apr 2026 · incident began 9 Dec 2025
Public Assistance
1 designated area: Lincoln (County)
Severe Storms and Flooding EM-3630-MT
Emergency · Flood · declared 19 Dec 2025 · incident began 10 Dec 2025
Public Assistance
3 designated areas: Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Sanders (County), Lincoln (County)
Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding DR-4887-MT
Major disaster · Flood · declared 11 Sep 2025 · incident began 18 May 2025
Public Assistance
1 designated area: Crow Indian Reservation
Windy Rock Fire FM-5611-MT
Fire management · Fire · declared 26 Aug 2025 · incident began 26 Aug 2025
Public Assistance
1 designated area: Powell (County)
Severe Storm and Straight-Line Winds DR-4847-MT
Major disaster · Severe Storm · declared 14 Nov 2024 · incident began 6 Aug 2024
Households can apply Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Crow Indian Reservation
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, 10:27 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).