After a presidentially declared disaster, federal recovery funding for North Dakota flows through FEMA and HUD. FEMA administers Individual Assistance and Public Assistance. HUD administers the Community Development Block Grant program, which is awarded to the State of North Dakota through ND Commerce .
This page traces to recurring North Dakota flood, severe storm, and severe winter weather events where North Dakota households could not locate the state's CDBG grantee website or the current FEMA declaration for their county. The pattern was consistent: households that found the state grantee website early in recovery completed the application faster and with fewer disputes than households that learned about the program after the application window had closed.
During the 2026 reorganization the recovery team found that the state recovery links, the FEMA declaration links, and the assistance matrix were documented on separate pages, and households could not see the full state record. The three were merged into this page, which carries the North Dakota grantee website, the Federal Register search, and a live FEMA declarations lookup in one place.
Key public access points for North Dakota:
- ND Commerce CDBG page: the North Dakota grantee page for the CDBG program.
- Federal Register search: the search that returns every HUD CDBG-DR notice naming North Dakota.
- FEMA Disaster Declarations: the federal database that records every North Dakota declaration by number, incident type, and incident period.
- FEMA Active Disaster Search: the federal search that lists currently open North Dakota disasters.
- HUD Exchange CDBG-DR: the federal program page that lists the North Dakota allocation and the published action plan.
- openFEMA: the federal open data portal that publishes FEMA program data, declarations, and assistance records for North Dakota.
The method generalizes to any state or disaster because it depends on the public record that each grantee and each federal agency publishes. Any North Dakota disaster can be looked up through the search tools on this page, and any new declaration is picked up automatically from the OpenFEMA v2 API.