Avg. Days to Decision (2025+)
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Across all resolved 2025+ requests
Avg. Days to Decision (2000–2024)
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Historical baseline
Denial Rate (2025+)
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Of all resolved requests
Denial Rate (2000–2024)
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Historical baseline
Data Note: This dashboard sources data from OpenFEMA, which only publishes declaration requests after a final decision has been reached.
Requests that are still pending review, under appeal, or awaiting a Presidential decision do not appear in the public data.
Some recently denied requests may also experience a lag before being added to the dataset.
As a result, the totals shown here may undercount the actual number of active declaration requests.
Tribal Nations Note: Due to the way FEMA organizes data in the OpenFEMA dataset, approved disaster declarations for Tribal Nations appear as state declarations rather than being attributed to the specific Tribal Nation.
We have manually corrected this issue for the period of January 1, 2025 through February 13, 2026 and will periodically update the tracker to correctly categorize Tribes with Federal Disaster Declarations.
Processing Time by Request (Days from Request to Decision)
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Approval Rate — Trump States
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Approval Rate — Harris States
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Avg. Days to Decision — Trump States
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Avg. Days to Decision — Harris States
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Median Days to Decision — Trump States
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Median Days to Decision — Harris States
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Political Context: Processing Time vs. 2024 Vote Margin
Approved + Trump
Denied + Trump
Approved + Harris
Denied + Harris
X-axis: Days to decision — denied requests extend left, approved requests extend right.
Y-axis: 2024 presidential vote margin — Trump-won states above center, Harris-won states below.
Tribal Nation declaration requests and approvals/denials have been removed from the indicator cards above and this chart, as Tribal Nations are sovereign entities and are not represented by state-level presidential vote margins.
All Declaration Requests
| Disaster # ▲▼ | State ▲▼ | Incident / Title ▲▼ | Type ▲▼ | Request Date ▲▼ | Decision Date ▲▼ | Days ▲▼ | Status ▲▼ |
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