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USDA Designates 66 Oklahoma Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

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 the refinance of 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: Oklahoma

Triggering Disaster: Drought

Application Deadline: Dec. 8, 2022

Primary Counties Eligible:

Alfalfa	Grady	Noble
Atoka	Grant	Nowata
Beaver	Greer	Oklahoma
Beckham	Harmon	Osage
Blaine	Harper	Pawnee
Bryan	Hughes	Payne
Caddo	Jackson	Pittsburg
Canadian	Jefferson	Pontotoc
Carter	Johnston	Pottawatomie
Choctaw	Kay	Pushmataha
Cimarron	Kingfisher	Roger Mills
Cleveland	Kiowa	Rogers
Coal	Le Flore	Seminole
Comanche	Lincoln	Stephens
Cotton	Logan	Texas
Craig	Love	Tillman
Creek	McClain	Tulsa
Custer	McCurtain	Wagoner
Dewey	Major	Washington
Ellis	Marshall	Washita
Garfield	Mayes	Woods
Garvin	Murray	Woodward

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Oklahoma:
Cherokee	Haskell	McIntosh	Okfuskee	Ottawa
Delaware	Latimer	Muskogee	Okmulgee	Sequoyah

Arkansas: Little River, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier
Colorado: Baca

Kansas: Barber, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Labette, Meade, Montgomery, Morton, Seward, Stevens, Sumner

New Mexico: Union

Texas: Bowie, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cooke, Dallam, Fannin, Grayson, Hansford, Hardeman, Hemphill, Lamar, Lipscomb, Montague, Ochiltree, Red River, Sherman, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger.

More Resources

On farmers.gov, the Disaster Assistance Discovery Tool, Disaster Assistance-at-a-Glance fact sheet, and Farm Loan Discovery 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.