USDA Designates 67 Counties in Oklahoma as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

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USDA Designates 67 Counties in Oklahoma as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

07/28/2011 11:15 AM EDT

Release 0085.11

USDA Designates 67 Counties in Oklahoma as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 27, 2011 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 67 counties in Oklahoma as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by the combined effects of drought, wildfires, excessive heat, excessive rain, flooding, tornadoes, lightning, high winds, hail, blizzards and freezes that occurred during the period of Jan. 1, 2011, and continuing. Those counties are:

Alfalfa	Cotton	Jackson	McClain	Pontotoc
Atoka	Creek	Jefferson	McCurtain	Pottawatomie
Beaver	Custer	Johnston	McIntosh	Pushmataha
Beckham	Dewey	Kay	Murray	Roger Mills
Blaine	Ellis	Kingfisher	Muskogee	Seminole
Bryan	Garfield	Kiowa	Noble	Sequoyah
Caddo	Garvin	Latimer	Okfuskee	Stephens
Canadian	Grady	Le Flore	Oklahoma	Texas
Carter	Grant	Lincoln	Okmulgee	Tillman
Choctaw	Greer	Logan	Osage	Wagoner
Cimarron	Harmon	Love	Pawnee	Washita
Cleveland	Harper	Major	Payne	Woods
Coal	Haskell	Marshall	Pittsburg	Woodward
Comanche	Hughes

“Oklahoma producers can continue to count on USDA to provide emergency assistance during continued economic difficulties,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “President Obama and I are committed to reducing the impact of this disaster for Oklahoma producers and will commit all available resources to help in the aftermath of this disaster.”

Farmers and ranchers in Adair, Cherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa and Washington counties in Oklahoma also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous.

Farmers and ranchers in the following counties in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous.

Arkansas
Crawford, Little River, Polk, Scott, Sebastian and Sevier

Colorado
Baca

Kansas
Barber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Meade, Morton, Seward and Sumner

New Mexico
Union

Texas

Bowie	Cooke	Hansford	Lipscomb	Sherman
Childress	Dallam	Hardeman	Montague	Wheeler
Clay	Fannin	Hemphill	Ochiltree	Wichita
Collingsworth	Grayson	Lamar	Red River	Wilbarger

All counties listed above were designated natural disaster areas July 27, 2011, making all qualified farm operators in the designated areas eligible for low interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), provided eligibility requirements are met. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. FSA will consider each loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. FSA has a variety of programs, in addition to the EM loan program, to help eligible farmers recover from adversity.

USDA also has made other programs available to assist farmers and ranchers, including the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE), which was approved as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008; the Emergency Conservation Program; Federal Crop Insurance; and the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program. Interested farmers may contact their local USDA Service Centers for further information on eligibility requirements and application procedures for these and other programs. Additional information is also available online at http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov.

FSA news releases are available on FSA’s website at http://www.fsa.usda.gov via the “News and Events” link.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).

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