FEMA Disaster Declarations — South Carolina
The most recent FEMA declaration for South Carolina is DR-4908-SC (Severe Winter Storm), a major disaster declaration made on 7 April 2026 for 3 areas. It does not include assistance for individual households. South Carolina has had 6 declarations in the last two years.
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Severe Winter Storm DR-4908-SC
Major disaster · Winter Storm · declared 7 Apr 2026 · incident began 21 Jan 2026
Public Assistance
3 designated areas: Greenville (County), Oconee (County), Pickens (County)
Severe Winter Storm EM-3632-SC
Emergency · Winter Storm · declared 23 Jan 2026 · incident began 21 Jan 2026
Public Assistance
47 designated areas: Fairfield (County), Richland (County), Charleston (County), Orangeburg (County), Calhoun (County), Laurens (County), Jasper (County), Clarendon (County), Edgefield (County), Pickens (County), Cherokee (County), Union (County), Kershaw (County), Greenville (County), Dorchester (County), York (County), Spartanburg (County), Chester (County), Berkeley (County), Catawba Indian Nation, Newberry (County), Marion (County), Dillon (County), Lexington (County), Barnwell (County), Allendale (County), Williamsburg (County), Lancaster (County), Lee (County), Hampton (County), McCormick (County), Marlboro (County), Saluda (County), Florence (County), Greenwood (County), Chesterfield (County), Anderson (County), Colleton (County), Sumter (County), Aiken (County), Horry (County), Bamberg (County), Oconee (County), Beaufort (County), Darlington (County), Georgetown (County), Abbeville (County)
Table Rock Fire Complex FM-5576-SC
Fire management · Fire · declared 23 Mar 2025 · incident began 23 Mar 2025
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
2 designated areas: Greenville (County), Pickens (County)
Table Rock Fire FM-5575-SC
Fire management · Fire · declared 23 Mar 2025 · incident began 21 Mar 2025
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Pickens (County)
Covington Drive Fire FM-5554-SC
Fire management · Fire · declared 7 Mar 2025 · incident began 1 Mar 2025
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Horry (County)
Severe Storms and Flooding DR-4858-SC
Major disaster · Flood · declared 10 Jan 2025 · incident began 6 Nov 2024
Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
3 designated areas: Orangeburg (County), Calhoun (County), Bamberg (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, 10:28 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).