This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation, or to refinance certain debts. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available, and repayment ability.
According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, these counties suffered from a drought intensity value during the growing season of 1) D2 Drought-Severe for 8 or more consecutive weeks or 2) D3 Drought-Extreme or D4 Drought-Exceptional.
Impacted Area: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming
Triggering Disaster: Drought Fast Track – Colorado
Incident Period: November 1, 2022
Application Deadline: November 17, 2023
Primary Counties Eligible:
Colorado: Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Fremont, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Las Animas, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Otero, Phillips, Prowers, Pueblo, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld, Yuma
Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:
Colorado: Boulder, Broomfield, Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Denver, Douglas, Huerfano, Jefferson, Larimer, Park, Saguache, Teller
Kansas: Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Morton, Sherman, Stanton, Wallace
Nebraska: Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel, Dundy, Kimball, Perkins
New Mexico: Colfax, Union
Oklahoma: Cimarron
Wyoming: Laramie
Triggering Disaster 2: Drought Fast Track—Kansas
Incident Period: November 11, 2022
Application Deadline: November 17, 2023
Primary Counties Eligible: Kansas-Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Clark, Coffey, Comanche, Cowley, Crawford, Decatur, Edwards, Elk, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford, Franklin, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Greenwood, Hamilton, Harper, Harvey, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Kingman, Kiowa, Labette, Lane, Lincoln, Logan, Lyon, McPherson, Marion, Meade, Montgomery, Morton, Neosho, Ness, Norton, Osage, Osborne, Pawnee, Phillips, Pratt, Rawlins, Reno, Rice, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Scott, Sedgwick, Seward, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, Sumner, Thomas, Trego, Wallace, Wichita, Wilson, Woodson
Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:
Colorado: Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Yuma
Kansas: Chase, Dickinson, Douglas, Jewell, Johnson, Linn, Miami, Mitchell, Morris, Ottawa, Saline, Shawnee, Wabaunsee
Missouri: Barton, Jasper, Newton, Vernon
Nebraska: Dundy, Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Hitchcock, Red Willow, Webster
Oklahoma: Alfalfa, Beaver, Cimarron, Craig, Grant, Harper, Kay, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa
Triggering Disaster 4: Drought Fast Track –Texas
Incident Period: November 1, 2022
Application Deadline: November 17, 2023
Primary Counties Eligible: Texas: Andrews, Atascosa, Austin, Bailey, Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burnet, Caldwell, Callahan, Carson, Castro, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collingsworth, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Dimmit, Duval, Eastland, Edwards, Erath, Falls, Fayette, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Frio, Gaines, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Gonzales, Gray, Grayson, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hays, Hemphill, Hidalgo, Hill, Howard, Hutchinson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Jones, Kendall, Kenedy, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Kleberg, Knox, Lamb, Lampasas, Lavaca, Limestone, Lipscomb, Llano, Lubbock, Lynn, McCulloch, McLennan, Martin, Mason, Maverick, Medina, Menard, Midland, Milam, Mills, Mitchell, Montague, Moore, Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Palo Pinto, Parker, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Real, Roberts, Robertson, Runnels, San Saba, Scurry, Shackelford, Sherman, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Swisher, Taylor, Terry, Tom Green, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Washington, Webb, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Williamson, Wilson, Yoakum, Zapata, Zavala
Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:
Texas: Archer, Armstrong, Bastrop, Baylor, Brazos, Burleson, Cameron, Collin, Crockett, Denton, DeWitt, Donley, Ector, Ellis, Fannin, Fort Bend, Freestone, Grimes, Hockley, Hood, Irion, Jack, Jackson, Johnson, Karnes, La Salle, Lee, Leon, Live Oak, McMullen, Madison, Navarro, Nueces, Reagan, San Patricio,
Schleicher, Somerville, Sutton, Tarrant, Terrell, Throckmorton, Upton, Victoria, Waller, Wharton, Willacy, Winkler, Wise, Young
New Mexico: Curry, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt, Union
Oklahoma: Beaver, Beckham, Bryan, Cimarron, Cotton, Ellis, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Love, Marshall, Roger Mills, Texas, Tillman
More Resources
On farmers.gov, the Disaster Assistance Discovery Tool, Disaster Assistance-at-a-Glance fact sheet, and Loan Assistance Tool can help you determine program or loan options. To file a Notice of Loss or to ask questions about available programs, contact your local USDA Service Center.
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