FEMA lista registros de ajuda a lares, não o total oficial pago

On September 11, 2026, the dataset that allows seeing attendance at households —not at municipalities nor at PREPA— is the Individuals and Households Program - Valid Registrations v2 from OpenFEMA. It is not the Public Assistance Funded Projects Details (cousin 749) nor the Housing Assistance Program Data - Owners (cousin 752): it is the applicant-level record of the Individuals and Households Program (IHP), with PII removed and geography by county/municipality, city, and zip. The Entity Name is IndividualsAndHouseholdsProgramValidRegistrations. The endpoint is https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v2/IndividualsAndHouseholdsProgramValidRegistrations. The official page, at the time of this note, publishes a Full Data of 26,220,490 national records in csv and parquet, large file (500MB–10GB). That count is national, not for Puerto Rico. Anyone who cites it as “26 million families on the Island” is making it up.

The dataset description sets the ethical framework before any figures. The IHP “is intended to meet basic needs and supplement disaster recovery efforts” and “is not intended to return disaster-damaged property to its pre-disaster condition.” Secondary or vacation homes do not qualify. The universe covers IA applications from DR-1439 (2002) to disasters declared more than 30 days ago. Valid Registrations include major disasters and only valid registrants. The data comes raw from NEMIS and “are subject to a small percentage of human error.” Any financial field “is derived from NEMIS and not FEMA's official financial systems” and “may differ slightly from official publication on public websites such as usaspending.gov”; “this dataset is not intended to be used for any official federal financial reporting.” That phrase must appear in the method box: ihpAmount in OpenFEMA ≠ official Treasury figure.

The fields that matter for a table in San Juan are, among others, disasterNumber, declarationDate, county, damagedStateAbbreviation, damagedCity, damagedZipCode, ownRent (O/R), primaryResidence, ihpEligible, ihpAmount (HA + ONA), haAmount, onaAmount, rentalAssistanceAmount, repairAmount, replacementAmount, personalPropertyAmount, rpfvl (real property FEMA-verified loss), ppfvl (personal property), unmetNeedRp, unmetNeedPp, homeOwnersInsurance, floodInsurance and ineligibleReason. Eligible ≠ awarded ≠ disbursed. An applicant can be referred and not eligible; can have ihpAmount > 0 and not have collected; can have high rpfvl and low repairAmount. IHP does not cover land damage.

To filter Puerto Rico the correct field is damagedStateAbbreviation eq 'PR', not a free text “Puerto Rico”. In a sample query from September 15, 2026 (API UTC rundate) against DR-4339 (Hurricane Maria) the endpoint returned home rows without PII. Three pedagogical examples—not total for the Island—: a registrant in Aguadilla (Municipality), renter, ihpEligible false, ihpAmount 0; a renter in San Juan (Municipality) with ihpEligible true, ihpAmount 2929.74, haAmount 1106, onaAmount 1823.74; another renter in San Juan with ihpEligible true, ihpAmount 1954.57, haAmount 0, onaAmount 1954.57. Citing those three rows shows the pipeline. Adding them together and headline “FEMA paid $4,884 in San Juan” would be a fraud of scale. This note does not publish an IHP total for Maria or Fiona because an audited aggregate was not calculated from the parquet; The journalist who does so must note lastRefresh, the filter and that NEMIS ≠ official financial system.

The page warns that Excel cannot handle the file without data loss. It recommends databases (Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL), R, Spark, Python, or Unix tools. Update Frequency appears as R/P1D. The full set is refreshed annually; there is a weekly refresh for disasters of the last 18 months. Citation: OpenFEMA Terms and Conditions, Citing Data. Press: FEMA-Press-Office@fema.dhs.gov. Data: OpenFEMA@fema.dhs.gov. Category: Individual Assistance. Program URL: fema.gov/individual-disaster-assistance.

How not to mix this dataset with its cousins. Housing Assistance Owners (752) and Renters aggregate by county/zip; IHP Valid Registrations is row per valid applicant. Individual Assistance Housing Registrants - Large Disasters includes invalid registrants and Census Block Group, but “no new disasters will be added.” Public Assistance does not live here: a PW from a municipality is not an ihpAmount. HUD's CDBG-DR is another tube, with Action Plan and DRGR. Anyone who crosses IHP with CDBG-DR must talk about duplication of benefits — HUD and FEMA have a Data Matching Program that includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico — not about “automatic double check.”

For Caribbean reporting, the value is in scrutiny, not in a catchy headline. It allows you to ask: how many valid rows are there in this municipality for this DR? What proportion is owner versus renter? How many rows have ihpEligible false and which ineligibleReason predominates? Does the unmetNeedRp that the dataset calculates (verified loss minus award) resemble what Housing puts in the Action Plan? Those questions fit in a neighborhood assembly in Loíza or in a legislative committee. What does not fit is turning 26,220,490 national records into “Puerto Rico’s aid.” Cousin: 752. Topic: economy. Primary source: OpenFEMA Individuals and Households Program - Valid Registrations v2.