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Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
Fact Sheet: June 2011 - USDA Programs that Assist Individuals and Small Businesses
Report: Secretary Vilsack's Action to Aid Disaster Victims
What You Need to Know: How to Keep Food Safety During an Emergency
USDA Response to Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding
Learn more about what assistance is available for you through USDA programs resulting from recent flooding, tornadoes and other severe storms.
Wildland fires
Fire always has been a part of American ecosystems. Learn more about current wildland fires and how you can protect your home.
Hurricane Relief Information
Information for those affected by hurricanes - food safety tips, food assistance, housing assistance and help for small businesses.
Food Assistance Information
USDA makes sure that people have enough to eat following a storm, earthquake, flood or other disaster emergency.
Disaster Assistance for Farmers and Ranchers
Get information about USDA assistance for natural disaster losses, resulting from drought, flood, fire, freeze, tornadoes, pest infestation, and other calamities.
Disaster and Drought Assistance for Farmers and Ranchers
Natural disaster is a constant threat to America's farmers and ranchers and rural residents. Learn how to get USDA assistance for losses that result from drought, flood, fire, freeze, tornadoes, pest infestation, and other calamities.
Avian Influenza Information
All you need to know about the complexities of avian influenza as a disease among birds, how you can protect your birds and how USDA is protecting the food supply.
H1N1 Influenza Information
Following the emergence of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza, USDA made it a priority to prepare for the possible spread of the virus in livestock. Learn more about the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus strain vs. swine influenza as a disease among pigs.
USDA Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response on Radiation Safety
Information about import process and safety of food products imported from Japan following the earthquake disaster.
BP Gulf Oil Spill Response
Information about USDA community and environmental assistance to oil spill disaster.
Disaster Assistance
DisasterAssistance.gov is a secure, user-friendly web site that consolidates information about federally funded government assistance to disaster victims.
USDA and fifteen other federal agencies have partnered with FEMA to develop this web site to you identify forms of assistance that you may qualify for, making it easier and faster for you to find application information
Flood Response and Recovery
Information about Health and Safety, How to Find Family and Friends, How to Get Help, How to Donate and Volunteer, and Learn What Government Is Doing and much more.
In the News
The USDA Emergency Watershed Protection Program Possible Help For Communities Impacted By Hurricane Irene
USDA Rural Development Funds Available For Disaster Relief Efforts
USDA Resources Include Assistance for Rural Housing, Community Facilities, and Businesses
