Oregon’s U.S. senators are urging their peers on a powerful budgeting committee to send emergency funding to Oregon and other states where national lands and parks were recently burned by wildfires.

The USDA Farm Service Agency today announced that the deadline for livestock producers to apply for assistance through the Emergency Livestock Relief Program for 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire is being extended to Nov. 21, 2025. The program is expected to provide approximately $1 billion in recovery benefits to producers whose livelihoods were adversely impacted by disrupted feed availability and poor forage conditions following catastrophic floods and wildfires in 2023 and 2024.

The USDA Farm Service Agency has extended the application deadline for the Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) to November 21, ensuring livestock producers affected by major floods and wildfires have more time to apply.

FSA determined eligible counties with qualifying floods and wildfires in 2023 and 2024

The City Council on Monday will consider amending its contract with Frame Group for disaster recovery consulting services to a total not-to-exceed amount of $1.45 million as the city continues recovery efforts from the Eaton Fire.

The California Department of Housing and Community Development reports that as a result of the 2021 wildfires the state of California received $24,408,000 in community development block grant disaster recovery funds to address disaster impacts and mitigate future disasters.

Income limits increased — up to $211,050 in Los Angeles County — expanding eligibility for families rebuilding after disasters.

U.S. Senator Deb Fischer’s (R-Neb.) legislation, the Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act, was approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Governor Greg Abbott today announced that he directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to mobilize additional state wildfire response resources amid ongoing fire danger across large portions of the state.