As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024
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As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024
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Deanne Criswell has spent years sounding the alarm about busier disaster seasons. Just days before the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stepped down at the end of the Biden administration, Criswell was directing the federal response to the deadly and destructive wildfires in Los Angeles.
“We’re seeing hurricane season last longer, we’re seeing spring severe weather season get more significant and we’re seeing the fire season go year-round now,” Criswell told CNN at the time. The agency is “more engaged in wildfire response than we ever have been before.”
It’s not just FEMA’s perception that threats are increasing — there were 90 declarations of “major disasters” in 2024.
[It was one of the worst years for disasters declarations](https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/climate/fema-disaster-emergency-declarations/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit) in the last three decades (1995-2024), according to a new analysis from the International Institute for Environment and Development, or IIED, shared exclusively with CNN. Ninety major disaster declarations in a year is nearly double the annual average of 55 declarations, according to the London-based think tank.
It translates to a major disaster declaration every four days.
Researchers also found that 41% of the US population lived in a county where a major disaster or emergency was declared — about 137 million people.
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