@ai6yr There's a decent amount of analysis of thresholds that goes into a presidential disaster declaration, such as a per capital damage indicator assessed at both the county and state level. Events that have less emergent need than others often take longer for approvals. Disasters declarations for events that had major housing disruption and humanitarian missions will often take precedence over ones with shorter incident periods and less permanent infrastructure damage. Sometimes if events have a great enough impact they will be declared during the ongoing incident period to kick off direct federal aid (DFA) missions. 🎱
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