USDA Designates 23 Texas Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

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, 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.

Impacted Area: Texas

Triggering Disaster: Drought

Application Deadline: Dec. 22, 2022

Primary Counties Eligible:
                                           

Hays                                   Uvalde                 Wilbarger            Wise                Young

Throckmorton                     Val Verde            Wilson                 Wood              Zapata

Titus                                    Van Zandt           Winkler               Yoakum          Zavala

Tom Green                         Ward                                           

Trinity                                 Webb                                          

Upshur                                Wheeler                                      

Upton                                  Wichita

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Texas:
Andrews                             Donley                 Hunt                      Polk

Angelina                             Duval                   Irion                      Rains

Archer                                 Ector                    Jack                       Reagan

Atascosa                             Edwards              Jim Hogg              Real

Bandera                              Foard                   Karnes                   Red River

Baylor                                 Franklin               Kaufman               Reeves

Bexar                                  Frio                      Kinney                  Roberts

Blanco                                Gaines                  Knox                     Runnels

Caldwell                             Glasscock            La Salle                 San Jacinto

Camp                                  Gonzales              Loving                   Schleicher

Clay                                    Gray                     McMullen              Shackelford

Cochran                              Gregg                   Marion                   Smith

Coke                                   Guadalupe           Maverick               Starr

Collingsworth                     Hardeman            Medina                  Stephens

Comal                                 Harrison               Menard                  Sterling

Concho                               Haskell                 Midland                Sutton

Cooke                                 Hemphill              Montague              Tarrant

Crane                                  Henderson           Morris                    Terrell

Crockett                              Hockley               Palo Pinto             Terry

Denton                                Hopkins               Parker                    Travis

Dimmit                               Houston               Pecos                     Walker

New Mexico: Lea
Oklahoma: Beckham, Cotton, Jackson, Roger Mills and Tillman

More Resources

On farmers.gov, the Disaster Assistance Discovery Tool, Disaster Assistance-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