FEMA Disaster Declarations — New Mexico
The most recent FEMA declaration for New Mexico is DR-4954-NM (Severe Storms and Flooding), a major disaster declaration made on 7 October 2026 for 1 area. Households in the designated areas can apply for FEMA assistance. New Mexico has had 9 declarations in the last two years.
Severe Storms and Flooding DR-4954-NM
Major disaster · Flood · declared 7 Oct 2026 · incident began 16 Jul 2026
Households can apply Public Assistance
1 designated area: Zuni Pueblo (Indian Reservation)
Severe Storms and Flooding DR-4918-NM
Major disaster · Severe Storm · declared 30 Jun 2026 · incident began 28 Sep 2025
Public Assistance
1 designated area: Pueblo of Acoma
Severe Storms, Flooding, and Landslides DR-4886-NM
Major disaster · Flood · declared 22 Jul 2025 · incident began 23 Jun 2025
Households can apply Public Assistance
4 designated areas: Dona Ana (County), Otero (County), Lincoln (County), Mescalero Tribe
Severe Storms, Flooding, and Landslides EM-3628-NM
Emergency · Flood · declared 10 Jul 2025 · incident began 23 Jun 2025
Public Assistance
4 designated areas: Chaves (County), Lincoln (County), Valencia (County), Otero (County)
Cotton 2 Fire FM-5594-NM
Fire management · Fire · declared 22 Jun 2025 · incident began 22 Jun 2025
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Valencia (County)
Desert Willow Fire Complex FM-5593-NM
Fire management · Fire · declared 21 Jun 2025 · incident began 21 Jun 2025
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Valencia (County)
Trout Fire FM-5588-NM
Fire management · Fire · declared 16 Jun 2025 · incident began 16 Jun 2025
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Grant (County)
Rio Grande Fire FM-5579-NM
Fire management · Fire · declared 18 Apr 2025 · incident began 17 Apr 2025
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Valencia (County)
Severe Storm and Flooding DR-4843-NM
Major disaster · Flood · declared 1 Nov 2024 · incident began 19 Oct 2024
Households can apply Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Chaves (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, 10:27 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).