2023/2024 Supplemental Disaster Assistance

2023/2024 Supplemental Disaster Assistance is sponsored by USDA Farm Service Agency. Offers financial assistance to producers affected by natural disasters during the 2023/2024 period.

The _American Relief Act_, 2025, provides more than $16 billion in disaster relief payments to producers who suffered revenue, quality or production losses to crops, trees, bushes, or vines due to qualifying disaster events in calendar years 2023 and 2024. The Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) will be administered in two stages.

Producers can receive payments in both stages, if applicable, and for one or both years, depending on losses. ### SDRP Payments Dashboard This page provides weekly stats on the total number of SDRP payments (Stage 1) disbursed by state.

### Stage 2 – Non-Indemnified Losses (Including Shallow Losses), Uncovered (Uninsured) and Shallow Losses Stage Two provides assistance for eligible crop, tree, bush and vine losses not covered under Stage One, including: * **Non-Indemnified (Including Shallow Losses)** * Insured losses through federal crop insurance that did not trigger a crop insurance indemnity. * Losses with NAP coverage that did not trigger a NAP payment.

* **Uncovered****(Uninsured)****Losses** * Includes losses that were not insured through federal crop insurance or NAP. * Includes quality losses to commodities indicated by: * A decrease in value based on discounts due to the physical condition of the crop supported by applicable grading factors * A decline in the nutritional value of forage crops supported by documented forage tests.

* Producers will certify to an SDRP quality loss percentage. ### Who is Eligible for Stage 2 Crop, tree, bush and vine losses must be due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, tornadoes, winter storms, freeze (including a polar vortex), smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualifying drought, and related conditions occurring in calendar years 2023 and/or 2024.

Drought losses must have occurred in a county rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a D2 (severe drought) for eight consecutive weeks, D3 (extreme drought) or greater intensity level during the applicable calendar year. A list of counties that are eligible for SDRP due to drought for 2023 and 2024 is available here.

The American Relief Act authorized $220 million to provide block grants to eligible States to provide compensation to producers for necessary expenses related to crop, timber, and livestock losses, including on-farm infrastructure resulting from adverse weather events in 2023 or 2024 that a State determines warrants such relief.

FSA is establishing block grants with Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, and Massachusetts that will cover crop losses; therefore, producers with losses on land physically located in these states will not be eligible for SDRP program payments. Livestock, timber and crops for grazing are not eligible.

## Payment Calculations for Stage 2 Stage 2 payments will be determined using several payment calculations depending on whether the eligible loss was insured or not and depending on the type of crop insurance policy. The Stage 2 basic payment is calculated by multiplying the expected value by the SDRP payment factor, which is the adjusted NAP or federal crop insurance coverage level the producer purchased for the crop.

The actual value is subtracted from the SDRP calculated payment amount. Administrative fees and premiums will only be included if the calculated SDRP payment is greater than zero. FSA is using existing NAP data as well as data already on file with the Risk Management Agency for losses covered by certain federal crop insurance policies.

Other FSA crop data, such as producer acreage reporting data and general crop data will be used when not available under crop insurance records and for uninsured applications. Producers are required to submit any missing data or producer revised crop insurance or NAP production data along with acceptable documentation to support their losses. Like Stage 1, the total SDRP Stage 2 payment to producers will not exceed 90% of the loss.

Initial SDRP payments were factored at 35%, but after further analysis, USDA is increasing the payment factor to 70%, meaning producers with approved applications will receive an additional 35% of their calculated SDRP payment. Future SDRP payments will also be made using a 70% payment factor. Producers are encouraged to use the SDRP online calculator for payment estimates.

For SDRP Stages 1 and 2, each calendar year has a separate payment limitation. Producers can receive payments through both Stage 1 and Stage 2 and payments under both stages will be combined when calculating payment limitations. ### Stage 2 Quality Losses Stage 2 incorporates quality losses into the application and payment calculation when applicable.

Quality discounts will be addressed by adjusting production to count using a producer certified quality loss percentage. Verifiable evidence of quality factors must be provided to support the claimed quality loss percentage. The following methods will be used by producers to calculate the quality loss percentage.

* Quality reductions for all crops, except forage, will be calculated using a decrease in value based on discounts provided at the point of sale due to the physical condition of the crop indicated by an applicable grading factor. * Quality reduction for forage crops will be based on nutritional value (similar to NAP). This approach provides a range of specified values and calculates a percentage.

FSA will use the range of Relative Feed Value (RFV) already established under NAP, Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN), or some other measure of forage feed quality can be used to document the quality factors. When a quality loss is applicable, producers may use the producer facing calculators below to assist in determining the quality loss percentage.

### Puerto Rico Insured Losses Insured producers in Puerto Rico were not included in Stage 1 because the data was not available when pre-filled applications were mailed. FSA created a new process to complete a calculation consistent with Stage 1 calculations and more information will be provided in early 2026. All NAP covered and uninsured losses in Puerto Rico will be processed like all other states.

### SDRP Stage 1 Quality Loss Stage 1 quality losses require a separate enrollment and payment calculation, which will be announced in early 2026.

## Stage 1 - Indemnified Losses ### Who Is Eligible for Stage 1 Crop, tree, and vine losses must be due to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, excessive heat, tornadoes, winter storms, freeze (including a polar vortex), smoke exposure, excessive moisture, qualifying drought, and related conditions occurring in calendar years 2023 and/or 2024.

Drought losses must have occurred in a county rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a D2 (severe drought) for eight consecutive weeks, D3 (extreme drought) or greater intensity level during the applicable calendar year. A list of counties that are eligible for SDRP due to drought for 2023 and 2024 is available here.

The American Relief Act authorized $220 million to provide block grants to eligible States to provide compensation to producers for necessary expenses related to crop, timber, and livestock losses, including on-farm infrastructure resulting from adverse weather events in 2023 or 2024 that a State determines warrants such relief.

FSA is establishing block grants with Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, and Massachusetts that will cover crop losses; therefore, producers with losses in these states will not be eligible for SDRP program payments. ### Payment Calculations for Stage 1 Stage 1 payments are based on the SDRP adjusted NAP or Federal crop insurance coverage level the producer purchased for the crop.

The net NAP or net Federal crop insurance payments (NAP or crop insurance indemnities minus administrative fees and premiums) will be subtracted from the SDRP calculated payment amount. For stage 1, the total SDRP payment to indemnified producers will not exceed 90 percent of the loss.

Initial SDRP payments were factored at 35%, but after further analysis, USDA is increasing the payment factor to 70%, meaning producers with approved applications will receive an additional 35% of their calculated SDRP payment. Future SDRP payments will also be made using a 70% payment factor. Calculate SDRP Stage 1 Payments