Hawaii Tropical Storm Nolo FEMA Emergency Declaration

Source: FEMA · Hawaii

FEMA issued declaration EM-3654-HI, a Emergency declaration. An Emergency declaration authorizes short-term, immediate federal assistance (typically Public Assistance) for a specific threat. It is faster to issue than a full Major Disaster Declaration but narrower in scope. Emergency declarations make up 14% of the 85 FEMA disaster declarations Areazine has tracked (12 of them). Areazine has reported 4 FEMA disaster declarations for Hawaii.

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Declaration type
Emergency
Declaration code
EM-3654-HI
State
Hawaii
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14% of 85 declarations
Source
FEMA
Published
September 25, 2026
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An Emergency declaration authorizes short-term, immediate federal assistance (typically Public Assistance) for a specific threat. It is faster to issue than a full Major Disaster Declaration but narrower in scope.

Areazine has reported 4 FEMA disaster declarations for Hawaii.

Record status: a point-in-time snapshot of the FEMA declaration. Program activations and designated-area lists can be amended after publication, so check FEMA's own declaration page for the current, authoritative scope.

What Happened

FEMA issued emergency declaration EM-3654-HI for Tropical Storm Nolo in Hawaii. The declaration was made on September 25, 2026, with the incident beginning September 23, 2026.

Affected Areas

Designated areas include Hawaii (County), Kauai (County), Honolulu (County), and Maui (County).

Federal Assistance Available

Public Assistance (PA) was declared. Individual Assistance (IA), Hazard Mitigation (HM), and Individuals and Households Program (IH) were not declared.

What You Should Do

Residents in designated areas may access public assistance programs activated under the declaration.

Source

FEMA Disaster Declaration EM-3654-HI

Original source: FEMA Official Notice ↗

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Similar notices nationwide by length or severity timing 8

Two cross-category peer sets, both computed from Areazine's own archive: notices with a similar body length, and notices near the same severity and agency date. These are drawn from other categories, not the same-feed Related list above.

Common Questions

Questions readers often have about this FEMA disaster declaration.

What does a Emergency declaration mean? ▾
An Emergency declaration authorizes short-term, immediate federal assistance (typically Public Assistance) for a specific threat. It is faster to issue than a full Major Disaster Declaration but narrower in scope.
Is this a common or rare FEMA declaration type? ▾
Emergency declarations account for 14% (12 of 85) of the FEMA disaster declarations Areazine has reported.
How often has Hawaii received a FEMA disaster declaration? ▾
Areazine has reported 4 FEMA disaster declarations for Hawaii, across all declaration types tracked in this archive.
What should residents in the declared area do? ▾
Contact your state or local emergency management agency for the specific programs this declaration activates in your area, and register with FEMA directly if Individual Assistance applies — declaration scope varies case by case and is never something to infer from the declaration type alone.