Drought Disaster Declared for Counties in Georgia, Florida
Posted by feww on February 24, 2015
Drought destroys or damages crops in 15 counties across two states
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated a total of 15 counties in two states—Georgia and Florida—as crop disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by excessively dry weather and drought that occurred from June 1, 2014 through Dec. 31, 2014.
The disaster designations are for the following areas:
- Georgia. Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee,Irwin, Jeff Davis, Lanier, Pierce,Telfair and Ware counties.
- Florida. Baker County.
Crop Disasters 2015
Beginning January 7, 2015 USDA has declared crop disasters in at least 746 counties across 16 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
All of the 2015 crop disaster designations so far are due to drought.
Crop Disasters 2014
In 2014, USDA declared crop disasters in at least 2,904 counties across 44 states. Most of the designations were due to drought.
Those states were:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan. Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. [FIRE-EARTH has documented all of the above listings. See blog content.]
Notes:
i. USDA trigger point for a countywide disaster declaration is 30 percent crop loss on at least one crop.
ii. The counties designated as agricultural disaster areas, as listed above, include both primary and contiguous disaster areas.
iii. Some counties may have been designated as crop disaster areas more than once due to multiple disasters.
iv. The U.S. has a total of 3,143 counties and county-equivalents.
v. The disaster designations posted above were approved by USDA on February 18, 2015.
Related Links
- Drought Disaster Declared for VA, WV Counties January 30, 2015
- Crop Disasters Declared for 220 Counties in 3 States January 8, 2015
- Crop Disasters Declared in 3 States December 25, 2014
- Federal Disasters
- Drought
- Agricultural Disasters Index
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cartoonmick said
Drought is our major concern for the future.
With more and more of us on this rock each day, our diminishing water resources’ are being stretched even further.
The worsening effects of climate change make the problem larger than is really evident.
Whilst we must leave the question of supply in the hands of our political masters, each of us must do our best to contain our usage.
Government must also help with the question of demand, as shown in this cartoon . . . .
https://cartoonmick.wordpress.com/editorial-political/#jp-carousel-910
Cheers
Mick