Households and businesses that lost property or vehicles during DANA Adam can apply for direct Generalitat grants from Monday, 2 November. Applications open at 9am and close at 11.59pm on 1 February 2027, although awards will be processed in order until the available funding is exhausted. If an application is incomplete, its effective place in the queue may become the date on which the missing information is supplied.
Several separate schemes share the same opening date. Decree 169/2026 covers damage to homes and temporary rehousing, while Decree 173/2026 covers vehicles declared a total loss. Applications must relate directly to the flooding on 18 and 19 October in one of the listed municipalities.
The vehicle must be insured and taken off the road register
A vehicle claim can only be made by the person or organisation recorded as its owner by Spain’s traffic authority. The vehicle must have been insured and declared a total loss because of the DANA by the insurer or the Insurance Compensation Consortium. It must also be temporarily or permanently deregistered before the claim is submitted. Owners using temporary deregistration have six months from publication of the decree to make it permanent.
Payments vary by category. The maximum is €250 for a moped, €2,000 for a car, van or other vehicle up to 3,500kg, and €2,500 for a car adapted for a person with reduced mobility. Vans between 3,500kg and 12,000kg can receive €3,000, heavy lorries and tractor units €9,000, and qualifying buses and coaches €15,000. The official table also sets separate amounts for motorcycles, motorhomes, trailers and agricultural or service machinery.
The vehicle scheme has a €10 million budget and covers private, agricultural and business vehicles. Individuals may apply online or use an authorised public registry. Companies and anyone legally required to deal with the administration electronically must use the online service. One application may include more than one vehicle belonging to the same registered owner.
Homes, essential belongings and rehousing use a different claim
Three caps apply to households: up to €6,000 for essential belongings damaged in a main home, up to €3,000 for a non-primary home and up to €800 a month for no more than 12 months of alternative accommodation. These are maximum amounts. Grants and insurance payments combined cannot exceed the proven cost of the loss.
Applicants must identify the damaged items and disclose any other grant or insurance claim already made or received. Where insurance applies, they must provide the insurer’s or Compensation Consortium’s case number. Tenants need evidence of their link to the property. A rehousing claim also requires the rental contract, agreed rent and payment records, together with a declaration that the household has no other suitable home within 30 kilometres.
An expansion published in the Valencian official gazette on 22 October increased the covered area from 27 to 40 municipalities: 28 in La Safor and 12 in Marina Alta. Those 13 additions are now in force and are no longer merely proposed.
Checks to make before submitting
A shared deadline does not make these schemes a single procedure. Anyone claiming for both a home and a vehicle must use the correct process for each loss and retain both receipts. A total-loss decision and traffic deregistration are prerequisites for a vehicle claim; the paperwork for a home changes depending on insurance, tenancy and rehousing circumstances.
Spain’s central government has also designated the affected areas as zones seriously affected by a civil protection emergency. That decision enables national aid and potential tax, employment and Social Security measures, but it neither replaces the regional applications nor creates an automatic entitlement. Losses must be evidenced under the rules of each national scheme.
This article will need updating if the Generalitat changes the municipality list, increases the budgets or revises the application forms. Until then, the official gazette and the specific procedures available from 9am on Monday are the controlling references.