FEMA Disaster Declarations — Nebraska
The most recent FEMA declaration for Nebraska is DR-4928-NE (Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding), a major disaster declaration made on 3 August 2026 for 8 areas. It does not include assistance for individual households. Nebraska has had 7 declarations in the last two years.
Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding DR-4928-NE
Major disaster · Severe Storm · declared 3 Aug 2026 · incident began 15 May 2026
Public Assistance
8 designated areas: Fillmore (County), Thurston (County), Nemaha (County), Thayer (County), Buffalo (County), Gage (County), Jefferson (County), Howard (County)
Wildfires DR-4920-NE
Major disaster · Fire · declared 30 Jun 2026 · incident began 12 Mar 2026
Public Assistance
5 designated areas: Morrill (County), Grant (County), Lincoln (County), Garden (County), Arthur (County)
South Fork Fire FM-5637-NE
Fire management · Fire · declared 10 Jun 2026 · incident began 9 Jun 2026
Public Assistance
2 designated areas: Dawes (County), Sioux (County)
Morrill-Cottonwood Fire FM-5623-NE
Fire management · Fire · declared 13 Mar 2026 · incident began 12 Mar 2026
Public Assistance
7 designated areas: Garden (County), Arthur (County), Dawson (County), Keith (County), Morrill (County), Lincoln (County), Grant (County)
Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding DR-4896-NE
Major disaster · Severe Storm · declared 22 Oct 2025 · incident began 8 Aug 2025
Public Assistance
12 designated areas: Seward (County), Thayer (County), Nemaha (County), Saline (County), Lancaster (County), Douglas (County), Nuckolls (County), Washington (County), Saunders (County), Fillmore (County), Webster (County), Burt (County)
Severe Winter Storm and Straight-Line Winds DR-4868-NE
Major disaster · Winter Storm · declared 21 May 2025 · incident began 18 Mar 2025
Public Assistance
28 designated areas: Lancaster (County), Douglas (County), Hamilton (County), Saline (County), Sarpy (County), Thayer (County), Dakota (County), Jefferson (County), Clay (County), Saunders (County), Boone (County), Burt (County), Thurston (County), Johnson (County), Platte (County), Colfax (County), Fillmore (County), Cass (County), York (County), Dodge (County), Webster (County), Nuckolls (County), Otoe (County), Polk (County), Cuming (County), Washington (County), Butler (County), Seward (County)
Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding DR-4838-NE
Major disaster · Severe Storm · declared 21 Oct 2024 · incident began 31 Jul 2024
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
5 designated areas: Saunders (County), Cass (County), Sarpy (County), Douglas (County), Lancaster (County)
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).