Blizzard of 96

Declaration

DR-1087-NC

Type

Major Disaster Declaration

State or territory

North Carolina

Incident type

Snowstorm

Declared

Jan 13, 1996

Requested

Jan 11, 1996 · request 96019

Incident began

Jan 6, 1996

Incident ended

Jan 12, 1996

Incident period

7 days

Closed out

Sep 18, 2001

Fiscal year

1996

FEMA region

Region 4

Designated incident types

Severe storm

Designated areas

• Alamance County
• Alexander County
• Alleghany County
• Ashe County
• Avery County
• Bertie County
• Buncombe County
• Burke County
• Cabarrus County
• Caldwell County
• Camden County
• Caswell County
• Catawba County
• Chatham County
• Cherokee County
• Chowan County
• Cleveland County
• Davidson County
• Davie County
• Durham County
• Edgecombe County
• Forsyth County
• Franklin County
• Gaston County
• Gates County
• Graham County
• Granville County
• Guilford County
• Halifax County
• Harnett County
• Haywood County
• Henderson County
• Hertford County
• Iredell County
• Jackson County
• Johnston County
• Lee County
• Lincoln County
• Macon County
• Madison County
• McDowell County
• Mecklenburg County
• Mitchell County
• Montgomery County
• Moore County
• Nash County
• Northampton County
• Orange County
• Pasquotank County
• Person County
• Pitt County
• Polk County
• Randolph County
• Rockingham County
• Rowan County
• Rutherford County
• Stanly County
• Stokes County
• Surry County
• Swain County
• Transylvania County
• Union County
• Vance County
• Wake County
• Warren County
• Watauga County
• Wilkes County
• Wilson County
• Yadkin County
• Yancey County

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