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Federal Emergency Management Agency Designates 24 Oklahoma Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

News Release
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Oklahoma
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Release Date
June 27, 2024

This Presidential disaster declaration 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. 

Impacted Area: Oklahoma

Triggering Disaster: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 and continuing

Application Deadline: December 19, 2024

Primary Counties Eligible: Hughes, Love, Murray

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Oklahoma: Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, McIntosh, Marshall, Okfuskee, Pittsburg, Pontotoc,

Seminole


Texas:
Cooke, Grayson, Montague

Disaster 1, Amendment 1: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 and continuing

Application Deadline: January 3, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Carter

Contiguous Counties: Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray, Stephens

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 2: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 and continuing

Application Deadline: January 7, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Okmulgee

Contiguous Counties: Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Tulsa, Wagoner

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 3: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 and continuing

Application Deadline: January 9, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Osage, Pontotoc 

Contiguous Counties Eligible:  

Kansas: Chautauqua, Cowley

Oklahoma: Coal, Garvin, Hughes, Johnston, Kay, McClain, Murray, Noble, Pawnee, Pottawatomie, Seminole, Tulsa, Washington

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 4: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 and continuing

Incident Period: April 24, 2024 through May 9. 2024 (changed from April 24, 2024, and continuing). 

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 5: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 through May 9, 2024. 

Application Deadline: January 13, 2025

Primary Counties: Washita

Contiguous Counties: Beckham, Caddo, Custer, Kiowa

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 6: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 through May 9, 2024.

Application Deadline: January 16, 2025

Primary Counties: Cotton

Contiguous Counties: 

Oklahoma: Comanche, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman

Texas: Clay, Wichita

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 7: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 through May 9, 2024.

Application Deadline: January 17, 2025 Primary Counties: Johnston, Pittsburg, Tillman

Contiguous Counties:

Oklahoma:  Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Haskell, Hughes, Jackson, Kiowa, Latimer, McIntosh, Marshall, Murray, Pontotoc, Pushmataha

Texas: Wichita, Wilbarger  

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 8: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 through May 9, 2024.

Application Deadline: January 22, 2025

Primary Counties: Kay, Lincoln, Okfuskee, Pottawatomie, Washington

Contiguous Counties:

Kansas: Chautauqua, Cowley, Montgomery, Sumner

Oklahoma: Cleveland, Creek, Garfield, Grant, Hughes, Logan, McClain, McIntosh, Noble, Nowata, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage, Payne, Pontotoc, Rogers, Seminole, Tulsa

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 10: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 through May 9, 2024

Application Deadline: January 28, 2025

Primary Counties: Coal, Haskell

Contiguous Counties: Atoka, Hughes, Johnston, Latimer, Le Flore, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Sequoyah

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 11: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 through May 9, 2024

Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

Primary Counties: Craig, McClain, Nowata, Ottawa

Contiguous County: Johnston 

 

Disaster 1, Amendment 12: Severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes that occurred on April 24, 2024 through May 9, 2024

Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

Primary Counties: Seminole, Wagoner

Contiguous Counties: Cherokee, Hughes, Mayes, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Rogers, Tulsa

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.

FEMA offers different assistance programs for individual citizens, public groups including government agencies and private nonprofit organizations.  To find the FEMA help you need following a disaster event, visit fema.gov/assistance.

Farm Service Agency:

1400 Independence Ave. 
SW Washington, DC 20250 
 

Contact:

FPAC Press Desk
FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov