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Federal Emergency Management Agency Designates 19 Oklahoma Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

11 Texas Counties Also Eligible for Assistance

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

Application Deadline: March 19, 2024

Primary Counties Eligible:

Bever	Cimarron	Comanche	Cotton
Craig	Creek	Delaware	Harper
Jefferson	Love	McCurtain	Major
Mayes	Payne	Pushmataha	Rogers
Stephens	Tulsa	Woodward

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Adair	Alfalfa	Atoke	Blaine
Caddo	Carter	Cherokee	Choctaw
Dewey	Ellis	Garfield	Garvin
Grady	Kingfisher	Kiowa	Latimer
Le Flore	Lincoln	Logan	Marshall
Noble	Nowata	Okfuskee	Okmulgee
Osage	Ottawa	Pawnee	Pittsburg
Texas	Tillman	Wagoner	Washington
Woods

Arkansas: Benton, Little River, Polk, and Sevier

Colorado: Baca

Kansas: Cherokee, Clark, Comanche, Labette, Meade, Morton, and Seward

Missouri: McDonald

New Mexico: Union

Texas: Bowie, Clay, Cooke, Dallam, Grayson, Lipscomb, Montague, Ochiltree, Red River, Sherman, and Wichita

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.