EXTREME CLIMATIC EVENTS
DROUGHT DISASTER
CROP DISASTER AREAS
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USDA Designates 18 Additional Counties in Texas as Crop Disaster Areas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated 18 additional counties in Texas as agricultural disaster areas due to the worsening drought.
The latest disaster areas are Dewitt, Gray, Karnes, Armstrong, Carson, Goliad, Lavaca, Atascosa, Collingsworth, Gonzales, Live Oak, Bee, Donley, Hemphill, Roberts, Victoria, Wheeler, and Wilson counties.
Texas Drought Map as of January28, 2014. Source: U.S. Drought Monitor
For earlier crop disaster declarations see links below.
Notes:
1. Some of the posts linked to below may have been removes, censored or hacked by Google, WordPress and others.
2. USDA trigger point for a countywide disaster declaration is 30 percent crop loss on at least one crop.
3. Total number of counties designated as agricultural disaster areas includes both primary and contiguous disaster areas.
4. The U.S. has a total of 3,143 counties and county-equivalents.
5. A number of counties have been designated crop disaster areas more than once due to multiple disasters.
6. The disaster designations were approved by USDA on January 22 and released on January 24, 2013.
2014 Agriculture Disaster Declarations
- California Communities Could Run Out of Water in 60 to 120 Days January 29, 2014
- Drought Disaster Declared for Multiple Counties in Four States January 25, 2014
- California Declares Drought State of Emergency January 18, 2014
- California Governor to Declare Drought Emergency January 17, 2014
- High Fire Danger in Southern California amid Driest Conditions on Record January 17, 2014
- 520 Counties across 16 States Declared Crop Disaster Areas due to Drought January 16, 2014
- Drought Disaster Declared for Multiple Counties in Four States January 25, 2014
- Crop Disaster Declared in 40 Counties due to Drought January 16, 2014
- Crop Disasters Declared in 6 States January 10, 2014
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