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FEMAEM-3475-SDEmergencyDeclared March 13, 2020

EM-3475-SD: South Dakota Covid-19

FEMA made an emergency declaration for South Dakota (EM-3475-SD) on March 13, 2020 for the incident of January 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023; it covers 76 designated areas.

The declaration

Declaration
EM-3475-SD (also written FEMA-3475-EM)
Type
Emergency declaration
State
South Dakota
Incident
Biological: Covid-19
Incident period
January 20, 2020 to May 11, 2023
Declared
March 13, 2020
Programs declared
Public Assistance
FEMA region
8
Place in the year
the first of 4 emergency declarations for South Dakota in 2020
Status
closed out on June 7, 2021

Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (v2). Data as of September 29, 2026.

Which areas are covered, and for what?

Designated areaIndividuals and HouseholdsPublic AssistanceHazard Mitigation
Aurora (County)—Yes—
Beadle (County)—Yes—
Bennett (County)—Yes—
Bon Homme (County)—Yes—
Brookings (County)—Yes—
Brown (County)—Yes—
Brule (County)—Yes—
Buffalo (County)—Yes—
Butte (County)—Yes—
Campbell (County)—Yes—
Charles Mix (County)—Yes—
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation—Yes—
Clark (County)—Yes—
Clay (County)—Yes—
Codington (County)—Yes—
Corson (County)—Yes—
Crow Creek Indian Reservation—Yes—
Custer (County)—Yes—
Davison (County)—Yes—
Day (County)—Yes—
Deuel (County)—Yes—
Dewey (County)—Yes—
Douglas (County)—Yes—
Edmunds (County)—Yes—
Fall River (County)—Yes—
Faulk (County)—Yes—
Flandreau Indian Reservation—Yes—
Grant (County)—Yes—
Gregory (County)—Yes—
Haakon (County)—Yes—
Hamlin (County)—Yes—
Hand (County)—Yes—
Hanson (County)—Yes—
Harding (County)—Yes—
Hughes (County)—Yes—
Hutchinson (County)—Yes—
Hyde (County)—Yes—
Jackson (County)—Yes—
Jerauld (County)—Yes—
Jones (County)—Yes—
Lake (County)—Yes—
Lake Traverse (Sisseton) Indian Reservation—Yes—
Lawrence (County)—Yes—
Lincoln (County)—Yes—
Lower Brule Indian Reservation—Yes—
Lyman (County)—Yes—
Marshall (County)—Yes—
McCook (County)—Yes—
McPherson (County)—Yes—
Meade (County)—Yes—
Mellette (County)—Yes—
Miner (County)—Yes—
Minnehaha (County)—Yes—
Moody (County)—Yes—
Northern Cheyenne Reservation and Trust Lands (&MT)—Yes—
Oglala Lakota (County)—Yes—
Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation—Yes—
Pennington (County)—Yes—
Perkins (County)—Yes—
Potter (County)—Yes—
Roberts (County)—Yes—
Rosebud Indian Reservation—Yes—
Sanborn (County)—Yes—
Spink (County)—Yes—
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota—Yes—
Stanley (County)—Yes—
Sully (County)—Yes—
Todd (County)—Yes—
Tripp (County)—Yes—
Turner (County)—Yes—
Turtle Mountain Reservation and Trust Lands (& ND)—Yes—
Union (County)—Yes—
Walworth (County)—Yes—
Yankton (County)—Yes—
Yankton Indian Reservation—Yes—
Ziebach (County)—Yes—

An area can be added to a declaration after the first day, or have a program added: this table is FEMA's current list.

Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (v2). Data as of September 29, 2026.

How much has FEMA approved?

FEMA has published no assistance totals for this declaration.

Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (v2); FEMA, OpenFEMA FEMA Web Disaster Summaries (v1). Data as of September 29, 2026.

Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (v2). Data as of September 29, 2026.

FEMA's page for this declaration

FEMA's own page for this declaration is fema.gov/disaster/3475. AreaZine is not FEMA and cannot answer questions about an application.