disaster area

noun

: an area officially declared to be the scene of an emergency created by a disaster and therefore qualified to receive certain types of governmental aid (such as emergency loans and relief supplies)

Examples of disaster area in a Sentence

After the hurricane, the state was declared a disaster area. His office is a disaster area. How can he find anything in all this clutter?

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The private-source share of expenses likely will be relatively low because so few homeowners and farmers in the disaster areas had flood or crop insurance. —

CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024 Founded in 2011, Baby2Baby has distributed more than 450 million essentials — including diapers, formula, clothing and cribs — to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care agencies, hospitals, underserved school districts and disaster areas. —

Angelique Jackson, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024 Taxpayers qualifying for relief who live outside the disaster area need to contact the IRS at 866-562-5227. —

Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 Once trained, those volunteers could be deployed to any disaster areas where they're needed. —

Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for disaster area