Disaster Declaration Process

Federal Disaster Declaration Process

  1. Incident Occurs
  2. Local officials collect initial damage estimates
  3. State requests Joint Preliminary Damage Assessments (PDAs) from FEMA Regional Office
  4. Joint Local/State/Federal PDAs are conducted
  5. Governor submits disaster declaration request to President through FEMA Regional Office
  6. FEMA reviews request, sends recommendation to President for decision
  7. President makes determination