Federal Emergency Management Agency Designates 26 Texas Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas Due to Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding

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: Texas

Triggering Disaster: Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding beginning April 26, 2024, through June 5, 2024.

Application Deadline: February 12, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Robertson

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible: Brazos, Burleson, Falls, Leon, Limestone, Madison, and Milam

Triggering Disaster 2: Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding beginning April 26, 2024, through June 5, 2024.

Application Deadline: February 24, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Coke, Fannin, Lynn, Panola, San Augustine, Shelby, and Sterling

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Angelina	Borden	Collin	Crosby	Dawson
Delta	Garza	Glasscock	Grayson	Harrison
Hockley	Howard	Hunt	Jasper	Lamar
Lubbock	Mitchell	Nacogdoches	Nolan	Reagan
Runnels	Rusk	Sabine	Terry	Tom Green

Louisiana: Caddo, De Soto, and Sabine

Oklahoma: Bryan

Triggering Disaster 3: Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding beginning April 26, 2024, through June 5, 2024.

Application Deadline: March 3, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Anderson, Baylor, Cochran, Delta, Milam, Rockwall, and Rusk

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Archer	Bailey	Bell	Burleson	Cherokee
Collin	Dallas	Falls	Fannin	Foard
Franklin	Freestone	Gregg	Harrison	Haskell
Henderson	Hockley	Hopkins	Houston	Hunt
Kaufman	Knox	Lamar	Lamb	Lee
Leon	Nacogdoches	Panola	Red River	Robertson
Shelby	Smith	Terry	Throckmorton	Wichita
Wilbarger	Williamson	Yoakum	Young

New Mexico: Lea and Roosevelt

Triggering Disaster 4: Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding beginning April 26, 2024, through June 5, 2024.

Application Deadline: March 10, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Nacogdoches and Sabine

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible: Angelina, Cherokee, Jasper, Newton, Rusk, San Augustine, and Shelby

Louisiana: Sabine


Triggering Disaster 5: Severe Storms, Straight-line Winds, Tornadoes, and Flooding beginning April 26, 2024, through June 5, 2024.

Application Deadline: March 17, 2025

Primary Counties Eligible: Blanco, Cass, Cherokee, Gonzales, Hopkins, McCulloch, Morris, Rains, and Titus

Contiguous Counties Also Eligible:

Anderson	Angelina	Bowie	Brown	Burnet
Caldwell	Camp	Coleman	Comal	Concho
Delta	DeWitt	Fayette	Franklin	Gillespie
Guadalupe	Hays	Henderson	Houston	Hunt
Karnes	Kendall	Lavaca	Llano	Mario
Mason	Menard	Nacogdoches	Red River	Rusk
San Saba	Smith	Travis	Upshur	Van Zandt
Wilson	Wood

Arkansas: Miller
Louisiana: Caddo

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.