Federal Emergency Management Agency Designates Additional Minnesota Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas Due to Recent Severe Storms and Flooding

Lincoln, Pipestone, and Rock Counties named contiguous counties eligible for assistance due to severe weather in South Dakota.

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: Minnesota

Triggering Disaster 1: Severe Storms and Flooding that occurred from June 16, 2024, and continuing. (M4797)

Application Deadline: February 28, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Blue Earth, Carver, Cass, Cook, Cottonwood, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Jackson, Lake, Le Sueur, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rice, Rock, St. Louis, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Minnesota: Aitkin, Beltrami, Brown, Carlton, Crow Wing, Dakota, Dodge, Hennepin, Houston, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Martin, Morrison, Mower, Nicollet, Olmsted, Redwood, Scott, Sibley, Todd, Wadena, Winona, Wright

Iowa: Dickinson, Emmet, Howard, Kossuth, Lyon, Osceola, Winnebago, Winneshiek, Worth

South Dakota: Brookings, Minnehaha, Moody

Wisconsin: Buffalo, Douglas, Pepin, Pierce

Disaster 1, Amendment 1: Severe Storms and Flooding that occurred from June 16, 2024 to July 4, 2024. (M4797)

Application Deadline: February 28, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: No additions.

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible: No additions.

Disaster 1, Amendment 2: Severe Storms and Flooding that occurred from June 16, 2024 to July 4, 2024. (M4797)

Application Deadline: March 31, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Itasca, Mower, and Nicollet

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Iowa: Howard, Mitchell, Worth

Minnesota: Aitkin, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Brown, Cass, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Koochiching, Le Sueur, Olmsted, Renville, St. Louis, Sibley, Steele

Disaster 1, Amendment 3: Severe Storms and Flooding that occurred from June 16, 2024 to July 4, 2024. (M4797)

Application Deadline: April 21, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Brown, McLeod, Martin, Redwood, Renville

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Iowa: Emmet, Kossuth

Minnesota: Blue Earth, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lyon, Meeker, Murray, Nicollet, Sibley, Watonwan, Wright, Yellow Medicine

Disaster 1, Amendment 4: Severe Storms and Flooding that occurred from June 16, 2024 to July 4, 2024. (M4797)

Application Deadline: April 28, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Houston, Sibley

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Iowa: Allamakee, Winneshiek

Minnesota: Carver, Fillmore, Le Sueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Renville, Scott, Winona

Wisconsin: La Crosse, Vernon

Triggering Disaster 2: Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding occurring in South Dakota from June 16 to July 8, 2024. (M4807)

Application Deadline: April 15, 2025

Primary South Dakota Counties Eligible: Aurora, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas, Gregory, Hand, Hanson, Hutchinson, Jackson, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Sanborn, Tripp, Turner, Union, Yankton

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Iowa: Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury

Minnesota: Lincoln, Pipestone, Rock

Nebraska: Boyd, Cedar, Cherry, Dakota, Dixon, Keya Paha, Knox South Dakota: Beadle, Brookings, Buffalo, Faulk, Haakon, Hyde, Jerauld, Jones, Kingsbury, Lyman, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Pennington, Spink, Todd

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.