How do I apply for FEMA assistance?

If the declaration includes Individual Assistance and your county is designated, apply at DisasterAssistance.gov, in the FEMA App, or by calling 1-800-621-3362. Have your address, insurance details and damage photos ready. Public Assistance pays governments and some non-profits, not households.

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FEMA Disaster Declarations — Ohio

The most recent FEMA declaration for Ohio is DR-4945-OH (Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding, and Landslides), a major disaster declaration made on 2 October 2026 for 7 areas. Households in the designated areas can apply for FEMA assistance. Ohio has had 1 declaration in the last two years.

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Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, Flooding, and Landslides DR-4945-OH

Major disaster · Flood · declared 2 Oct 2026 · incident began 10 Aug 2026

Households can apply

7 designated areas: Clermont (County), Licking (County), Perry (County), Muskingum (County), Morgan (County), Franklin (County), Hamilton (County)

FEMA page for DR-4945-OH ↗

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, 10:24 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).