FEMA Public Assistance disaster grants in Florida

Public assistance on a Florida tag, not a hurricane scoreboard

Keep USAspending rows labeled DISASTER GRANTS - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (PRESIDENTIALLY DECLARED DISASTERS) whose geography is Florida (FL). Thirty-six awards remain. They sum to $15,361,630,588.11. Public assistance reimburses eligible costs of state, local, tribal, and certain private-nonprofit applicants after a presidential declaration. The extract does not name the declarations, the applicants, or the debris piles.

The implied mean is about $426,712,000 per award. Large PA awards can bundle many projects. Thirty-six is not 36 hurricanes and not 36 counties. Modifications and consolidated awards can keep the row count small while dollars stay large.

Florida federal spending is every CFDA on an FL tag. CFDA 97.036 is public assistance nationwide. Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Florida is the overlap. Florida programs and All spending ties are the indexes beside it.

Applicants can be counties, cities, school boards, and certain nonprofits. None of those types is listed in the facts. $15,361,630,588.11 is the obligation sum, not an applicant roster.

Florida SNAP in this slice is three awards. Public assistance is 36. Different Catalog numbers produce different grains. Do not read the thicker PA file as proof of more ‘need’ than SNAP.

What 97.036 excludes even after a storm

Individual Assistance, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, flood insurance, and Small Business Administration disaster loans are other Catalog numbers or other agencies. They are not inside $15,361,630,588.11. Mixing them in would be a different join.

Place-of-performance for PA often follows the applicant or the declared state. Work on a barrier island can be billed through a county award tagged FL; work coded to another state would not appear here even if contractors mobilized from Florida. The 36-row file is not a damage map.

Presidential declarations are a legal predicate for this CFDA. The packet still does not list which declarations sit under the $15,361,630,588.11 sum. This page will not invent storm names.

Hazard mitigation that is not coded 97.036 is outside this join even when it follows the same hurricane. Keep the Catalog number in the sentence when you quote $15,361,630,588.11.

Obligations versus reimbursements paid

PA awards can remain open for years while projects finish and closeout proceeds. Quote $15,361,630,588.11 as USAspending obligations, not as checks already cleared to Florida applicants. Outlays, cost shares, and deobligations are other columns.

No fiscal year is in the facts. Do not pin the sum to a single hurricane season. Cite USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.

Closeout can deobligate. A later overlay may show a different sum. This JSON is the packet snapshot.

Panhandle and South Florida share one FL code

This packet does not split 36 awards or $15,361,630,588.11 by region. A Panhandle narrative and a South Florida narrative would need project-level geography. The extract stays statewide.

Do not rank Florida as more disaster-struck than Louisiana or any other state from this cell alone. Declaration history, coastal exposure, and applicant behavior are not facts here. Correlation is not causation.

A statewide FL tag collapses the Keys, the Panhandle, and the I-4 corridor. Project worksheets are the geography local stories need, and they are not here.

How to cite Florida public assistance

Quote USAspending.gov: Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) obligated $15,361,630,588.11 on 36 awards coded to Florida. Name FEMA public assistance and Florida in the same sentence.

The overlay Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Florida is the live table. This JSON is the snapshot.

PA beside other Florida joins

Florida highway planning (20.205) is 6,916 awards. Florida PA is 36. Both can be large in dollars. Row counts follow Catalog design, not a ranking of which program Florida ‘used more.’

Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Florida is the overlay. Florida programs and All spending ties sit beside it.

Questions

How much FEMA Public Assistance is obligated in Florida?

USAspending.gov shows $15,361,630,588.11 across 36 awards for CFDA 97.036, Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters), tagged to Florida. That is an obligation join, not insurance payouts.

Does 36 awards mean 36 Florida disasters?

No. Thirty-six is an award-action count. One declaration can produce many awards, and one award can cover many projects. Storm names are not in this packet.

Does this include flood insurance or Individual Assistance?

No. Those programs use other Catalog numbers or other systems. Only 97.036 with a Florida place-of-performance tag is in $15,361,630,588.11.

Where is the live Florida 97.036 table?

Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Florida. See also Florida federal spending, Florida programs, CFDA 97.036, and All spending ties.