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USDA Designates 17 Utah Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

News Release
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Utah
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Release Date
May 13, 2021

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 (see http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/), 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.

State: Utah

Triggering Disaster: Drought

Application Deadline: November 5, 2021

Primary Counties Eligible:  

Beaver          Emery          Juab        San Juan        Uintah
Box Elder      Garfield        Kane        Sevier           Washington
Carbon          Grand          Millard      Tooele           Wayne
Duchesne       Iron
 
Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

 Utah: Cache, Daggett, Davis, Piute, Salt Lake, Sanpete, Summit, Utah, Wasatch and Weber

Arizona: Apache, Coconino, Mohave and Navajo

Colorado: Dolores, Garfield, Mesa, Moffat, Montezuma, Montrose, Rio Blanco and San Miguel

Idaho: Cassia and Oneida

Nevada: Elko, Lincoln and White Pine

New Mexico: San Juan

 For more information on FSA disaster assistance programs or to find your local USDA Service Center visit farmers.gov/recover.

Farm Service Agency:

1400 Independence Ave. 
SW Washington, DC 20250 
 

Contact:

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