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published: May 13th 2022
source: USDA

USDA designates 174 Texas counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

This secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Depart-ment of Agriculture (US DA) 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.
    Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Archer, Arm-strong, Atascosa, Bailey, Bandera, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Collingsworth, Comal
    Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell, Cottle, Crane, Crockett Crosby, Culberson, Dallam, Dallas, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Del-ta, Denton, Dickens, Dim-mit, Donley, Duval, East-land, Ector, Edwards, Ellis, Erath, Fannin, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Franklin, Frio, Gaines, Garza, Gil-lespie, Glasscock, Gray, Grayson, Gregg, Hale
    Hall, Hamilton, Hans-ford, Hardeman, Harrison, Hartley, Haskell, Hem-phill, Henderson, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Hud-speth, Hunt, Hutchinson, Irion, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Johnson, Jones, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, Kings, Kinney, Knox, Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, La Salle, Lipscombe, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn
    McCulloch, McLennan, McMullen, Marion, Mar-tin, Mason, Maverick, Me-dina, Midland, Mills, Mit-chell, Montague, Moore, Morris, Motley, Nacogdo-ches, Nolan
    Ochiltree, Oldham, Orange, Palo Pinto, Pano-la, Parker, Parmer, Pecos, Potter, Presidio, Rains, Randall, Reagan, Real, Red River, Reeves, Ro-berts, Rockwall, Runnels, Rusk, San Augustine, San Saba, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Shelby, Sher-man, Smith, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterlingm Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher, Tarrant, Taylor, Terrell, and Terry.
    Contiguous counties also eligible include:
    Chambers, DeWitt, El Paso, Falls, Freestone, Goliad, Gonzales, Guada-lupe
    Hardin, Hays, Hidalgo, Jack,Jasper, Lynn, McCul-loch, Kenedy, Kleberg, Leon
    Liberty, Limestone, Ma-d-son, Menard, Milam. Newton, Nueces, McCul-loch, Kenedy, Kleberg, Leon, Liberty, Limestone, Madison, Menard, Milam, Newton
    Nueces, Refugio, Sa-bine, San Patricio, Throck-morton, Titus, Tom Green, Travis, Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Walker, Ward, Webb
    Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wil-liamson, Wil-son, Winkler, Wise, Wood, Yoakum, Young, Zapata and Zavala/
More resources
    On farmers.gov, the Disaster Assis-tance Discovery Tool, Disaster Assis-tance-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.
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