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Disaster declaration

The observed, reported, measured, or estimated disaster declaration for an event, on the basis and date stated by the source.

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Field SRC EM-DAT Public Data Source: EM-DAT Public Data SRC FEMA OpenFEMA Disa… Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries API

Sources that carry it

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Centre for Research on the Epidemiolo…
EM-DAT Public Data

Living global disaster-country flat table, 1900-present, updated weekly and available as a complete XLSX after registration. Commercial entities can buy a documented annual licence.

Paid Full file Global 19 fields
U.S. Federal Emergency Management Age…
FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries API

Free public OpenFEMA API and reusable full-file distributions for all official FEMA declarations since 1953. Records include declaration identity and type, incident type and begin/end dates, designated state/area and geographic codes, incident id, and last-refresh timestamp.

Free APIFull file Unknown 7 fields

Questions it helps answer

Event economic-loss estimateHistorical catastrophe loss patternsMarket insurance protection-gap benchmarksDisaster declaration status

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