2015 Historic Flood

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Incident Period: October 1-23, 2015

  • Storm related fatalities: 19
  • Displaced citizens: more than 20,000
  • Shelters: 32 (includes standby locations)
  • 26 counties with shelters
  • 941 citizens sheltered
  • Emergency meals served: more than 2,000,000
  • Citizens without water: 40,000
  • Highway Patrol calls: 8,407
  • Collisions during the event: 3,521
  • Dam breaches/failures: 50
  • Dams under emergency orders: 75
  • Roads and bridges closed: 500+
  • Water rescues: more than 1,500
  • Calls taken by the Public Information Phone System: 12,900+
  • State logistics requests: more than 900
  • EMAC (Mutual Aid from other states): 42 requests fullfilled by ten states
  • SC National Guard deployed: 4,100 personnel
  • Counties declared disasters: 36

Private Insurance Claims: 65,562
Total Privately Insured Losses: $283,673,951.45

People receiving aid through FEMA/SCEMD: 28,160
Total dollar amount of FEMA individual assistance: $89,151,924.60

Total cost of disaster to date: $2.2 billion (estimated as of August 2016)

*Includes total government agency cost, private insurance claims and estimated agriculture losses.