10/09/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/09/2024 18:31
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.
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