FEMA Disaster Declarations — South Dakota
The most recent FEMA declaration for South Dakota is DR-4941-SD (Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding), a major disaster declaration made on 1 September 2026 for 1 area. Households in the designated areas can apply for FEMA assistance. South Dakota has had 6 declarations in the last two years.
Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding DR-4941-SD
Major disaster · Severe Storm · declared 1 Sep 2026 · incident began 2 Jun 2026
Households can apply Public Assistance
1 designated area: Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation
Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding DR-4938-SD
Major disaster · Severe Storm · declared 1 Sep 2026 · incident began 28 Jun 2026
Public Assistance
10 designated areas: Stanley (County), Bennett (County), Hughes (County), Hand (County), Lower Brule Indian Reservation, Buffalo (County), Day (County), Crow Creek Indian Reservation, Beadle (County), Hyde (County)
Straight-Line Winds DR-4903-SD
Major disaster · Straight-Line Winds · declared 7 Apr 2026 · incident began 17 Dec 2025
Public Assistance
3 designated areas: Pennington (County), Fall River (County), Custer (County)
Qury Fire FM-5622-SD
Fire management · Fire · declared 13 Mar 2026 · incident began 12 Mar 2026
Public Assistance
1 designated area: Custer (County)
Severe Storm and Flooding DR-4890-SD
Major disaster · Flood · declared 11 Sep 2025 · incident began 12 Jun 2025
Households can apply Public Assistance
1 designated area: Lake Traverse (Sisseton) Indian Reservation
Severe Storm, Straight-Line Winds, and Flooding DR-4842-SD
Major disaster · Severe Storm · declared 1 Nov 2024 · incident began 13 Jul 2024
Households can apply Public Assistance Hazard Mitigation
1 designated area: Cheyenne River 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, 10:28 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).