On Sep. 3, SBA offered disaster loans to Wyoming small businesses.
SBA offered disaster assistance to Wyoming small businesses following economic losses that occurred as a result of the drought that began on Aug. 20, 2024.
US Secretary of Agriculture designated an agricultural disaster on Aug. 26, 2024.
Eligibility
Aid is available in Wyoming primary counties of Campbell, Converse, Niobrara, Weston.
Neighboring Wyoming counties of Albany, Carbon, Crook, Goshen, Johnson, Natrona, Platte and Sheridan and similarly affected neighboring Montana county of Powder River
Aid also available to neighboring Nebraska county of Sioux, neighboring South Dakota counties: Custer, Fall River, Lawrence and Pennington who experienced the drought.
Small non-farm businesses, agricultural cooperatives, businesses engaged in aquaculture may qualify for Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) of up to $2mn.
Also eligible for the loans are most private nonprofit organizations of any size.
To help meet expenses that could have been met if the disaster had not occurred.
Eligibility based on financial impact of disaster only and not on actual property damage
Application Deadlines
The deadline for Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications is Apr. 28, 2025.
