Get major disaster declarations by county — get_fema_disaster

Retrieves FEMA Major Disaster Declarations at the county level, aggregated by year and month. Tribal declarations are stored separately as an attribute.

Usage

get_fema_disaster_declarations(
  file_path = file.path(get_box_path(), "hazards", "fema", "disaster-declarations",
    "raw", "fema_disaster_declarations_county_2024_10_25.csv"),
  api = TRUE
)

Arguments

file_path: The path (on Box) to the file containing the raw data.
api: If TRUE (default), access data from the API. Else, read locally from file_path.

Value

A dataframe comprising Major Disaster Declarations by month by year by county. Tribal declarations are stored as an attribute (tribal_declarations). Columns include:

unique_id: Unique identifier for each observation.
GEOID: Five-digit county FIPS code.
year_declared: Year the disaster was declared.
month_declared: Month the disaster was declared (1-12).
declaration_title: Title(s) of the disaster declaration(s).
incidents_all: Total count of disaster declarations in the county-month.
incidents_natural_hazard: Count of natural hazard declarations.
incidents_*: Additional columns for other incident types, each of which reflects the count of the given incident type.

Details

Data are from FEMA's OpenFEMA API. See https://www.fema.gov/openfema-data-page/disaster-declarations-summaries-v2. Statewide declarations are expanded to all counties in the state.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_fema_disaster_declarations(api = TRUE)
} # }