USDA Crop Disaster Designations (May – July 2018)

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Drought causes crop disasters in hundreds of counties across multiple states

[INCOMPLETE LIST] USDA Crop Disaster Designations May 17 – July 24, 2018

Release No. 0105.18
USDA has designated five counties in New Mexico as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
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Release No. 0103.18
March 2018 Freeze: For the freeze occurring March 8, through March 23, 2018, USDA has designated 36 counties in Georgia, and five counties in Florida as crop disaster areas.
April 2018 Freeze: For the freeze occurring on April 17, 2018, USDA has designated 12 counties in Georgia, two counties in North Carolina, and one county in Tennessee as crop disaster areas.
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Release No. 0101.18
Hurricane Irma’s Impact to Crop Year 2017: For losses and damaged caused by Hurricane Irma for the 2017 crop year, USDA has designated 16 counties in Florida as crop disaster areas.
Hurricane Irma’s Impact to Crop Year 2018: For losses and damage caused by Hurricane Irma for the 2018 crop year, USDA has designated one county in Florida as disaster area.
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Release No. 0098.18
USDA has designated 11 counties in Utah as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
Also included in the disaster declaration are the following contiguous counties:
Colorado: Three counties.
Nevada: Two counties.
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Release No. 0097.18
USDA has designated 15 counties in Texas as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
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Release No. 0096.18
USDA has designated six counties in Colorado, and two counties in Utah, as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
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Release No. 0095.18
USDA has designated 17 counties in Texas, and one county in New Mexico, as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
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Release No. 0088.18
USDA has designated 11 counties in Utah as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
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Release No. 0094.18
USDA has designated five counties in Colorado as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
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Release No. 0087.18
USDA has designated three counties in Nevada as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
Also included in the disaster declaration are the following contiguous counties:
Arizona: One county.
California: Two counties.
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Release No. 0086.18
USDA has designated eight counties in Colorado as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
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Release No. 0084.18
USDA has designated 32 counties in North Dakota as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by drought that began June 20, 2017, and continues.
Also included in the disaster declaration are the following contiguous counties:
Montana: Five counties.
South Dakota: Four counties.
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Release No. 0083.18
USDA has designated 18 counties in Colorado as crop disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by a recent drought.
Three contiguous counties in New Mexico were also included in the disaster declaration.
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Drought Crop Disaster Declared in Oklahoma

6 Oklahoma counties declared crop disaster areas

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated six additional counties in Oklahoma as crop disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by a recent drought.

The crop disaster areas in Oklahoma are Creek, Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Pawnee and Payne counties.

Crop Disasters 2015

Beginning January 7, 2015 USDA has declared crop disasters in at least 940 counties across 20  states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.

Majority 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 March 25, 2015.

Related Links

• Crop Disasters Declared in Six U.S. States March 20, 2015
• Drought Crop Disasters Declared in 10 U.S. States March 5, 2015
• Drought Disaster Declared in AZ, CA, NV, TX, UT February 26, 2015
• Crop Disasters Declared for 220 Counties in 3 States January 8, 2015
• Federal Disasters
• Drought
• Agricultural Disasters Index

 

Crop Disasters Declared for 11 U.S. States

EXTREME CLIMATIC EVENTS
DROUGHT
FREEZE, EXCESSIVE SNOW
CROP DISASTERS
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Drought and Freeze Cause Crop Disasters across Dozens of Counties in 11 States

Crop Disasters Caused by DROUGHT

The U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA has designated dozens of counties across 10 states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah—as crop disaster areas due to the drought.

Those areas are

• California. Imperial, Riverside and San Diego counties.
• Arizona. La Paz and Yuma counties.
• Colorado. Phillips, Baca, Kiowa, Prowers, Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Sedgwick and Yuma (2 designations) counties.
• Idaho. Cassia, Owyhee and Twin Falls counties.
• Kansas. Cheyenne, Greeley, Morton, Scott, Decatur (2 designations), Hamilton Norton, Seward, Graham, Haskell, Phillips, Sheridan, Grant, Meade, Rawlins , Sherman, Wallace, Wichita,Clark Gove, Lane, Smith, Finney, Gray, Logan, Stanton, Ford,  Kearny, Rooks, Stevens, Thomas  and Trego counties.
• Nebraska. Arthur, Chase (2 designations), Custer, Dawson, Deuel, Dundy (2 designations), Furnas (2 designations), Garden, Gosper, Harlan, Hayes (2 designations), Keith  (2 designations), Franklin, Frontier (2 designations), Hitchcock (3 designations), Lincoln (2 designations), Red Willow (3 designations),  Logan, McPherson and Perkins (2 designations) counties.
• Nevada. Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Nye and White Pine counties.
• Oklahoma. Beaver, Cimarron and Texas counties.
• Texas. Crockett, Menard, Schleicher, Irion, Reagan, Sutton, Concho, Glasscock, Mason, Sterling, Upton, Crane, Kimble, Midland, Terrell, Val Verde, Edwards, McCulloch, Pecos and  Tom Green counties.
• Utah.  Box Elder and Tooele counties.

Crop Disasters Caused by FREEZE

USDA has also designated 20 counties in New York as crop disaster areas due to losses caused by freeze and excessive snow that occurred Dec. 1, 2013, and continues.

Those counties are Onondaga, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Wyoming, Allegany, Cortland, Madison, Tompkins, Cattaraugus, Erie, Monroe, Wayne, Cayuga, Genesee, Oswego, Yates, Chemung, Livingston and Steuben.

Drought Disasters 2014

Since January 10, 2014 USDA has declared at least 1,010 counties across 16 states as crop disaster areas.

• Those states are: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Utah.

• Crop disasters have been declared in an additional 42 counties in the states of New York and Pennsylvania due to  Freeze.

Notes:
i. USDA trigger point for a countywide disaster declaration is 30 percent crop loss on at least one crop.

ii. The total number of counties designated as agricultural disaster areas includes both primary and contiguous disaster areas.

iii. A number of counties may have been designated 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 April 2, 2014.

Related Links

• Crop Disaster Declared for 45 Counties in Texas, Oklahoma April 3, 2014
• Crop Disasters Declared in 5 States as Drought Worsens March 27, 2014
• Crop Disasters Declared for Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho March 21, 2014
• Drought
• Agricultural Disasters Index

Crop Disaster Declared for 45 Counties in Texas, Oklahoma

EXTREME CLIMATIC EVENTS
WORSENING DROUGHT
CROP DISASTERS
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Worsening Drought Causes More Crop Disasters in Texas, Oklahoma

The U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA has designated a total of 45 counties in Texas and Oklahoma as crop disaster areas due to the worsening drought.

Those areas are

• Texas. Bell, Dallas, Hamilton, McLennan, Comanche, Eastland, Hill, Mason, Coryell, Fannin, Lamar, Bosque, Erath, Lampasas, Palo, Pinto, Brown, Falls, Limestone, Red River, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano, Rockwall, Callahan, Grayson, McCulloch, San Saba, Collin, Hunt, Menard, Shackelford, Delta, Johnson, Milam, Stephens, Denton, Kaufman, Mills, Tarrant, Ellis, Kimble, Navarro and Williamson counties.

• Oklahoma. Bryan and Choctaw counties.

Drought Disasters 2014

Since January 10, 2014 USDA has declared at least 909 counties across 16 states as crop disaster areas due to worsening drought.

• Those states are: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Utah.

• Crop disasters have been declared in an additional 22 counties in the states of New York and Pennsylvania due to  Freeze.

Notes:
i. USDA trigger point for a countywide disaster declaration is 30 percent crop loss on at least one crop.

ii. The total number of counties designated as agricultural disaster areas includes both primary and contiguous disaster areas.

iii. A number of counties may have been designated 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 April 2, 2014.

Related Links

• Crop Disasters Declared in 5 States as Drought Worsens March 27, 2014
• Crop Disasters Declared for Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho March 21, 2014
• Drought
• Agricultural Disasters Index