Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP)

The Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) provides emergency relief payments to livestock producers who suffered losses due to drought, wildfire, or flooding in calendar years 2023 and/or 2024. Funded by the American Relief Act, 2025 ($2 billion nationally), ELRP is administered as two separate sub-programs with different eligibility and payment mechanics:

• ELRP 2023 and 2024 Drought and Wildfire: compensates ranchers who have an approved Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) application for 2023 and/or 2024 grazing losses due to eligible drought, or whose permitted grazing on federally managed land was reduced due to wildfire. Payments (~$1 billion total) are issued automatically using existing LFP data — no separate application is required.

• ELRP 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire: helps offset increased supplemental feed costs due to qualifying floods or wildfires on non-federally managed land in 2023 and/or 2024 (~$1 billion total). This component does require an application; the enrollment period has been extended to November 21, 2025.

Eligible Producers must have eligible livestock and meet 'qualifying disaster event' criteria for 2023 and/or 2024.

ELRP 2023/2024 Drought and Wildfire: Producers must have suffered grazing losses in a county rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having D2 (severe drought) for eight consecutive weeks, or D3 (extreme drought) or higher, during the normal grazing period in 2023, 2024, or both years, AND must have applied and been approved for the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) for the applicable year(s). Producers whose permitted grazing on federally managed land was reduced due to wildfire are also eligible if approved for LFP in 2023, 2024, or both.

ELRP 2023/2024 Flood and Wildfire: Livestock producers with qualifying flood or wildfire losses on non-federally managed land in 2023 and/or 2024. FSA has compiled a list of approved counties; producers in those counties are not required to submit supporting documentation. Producers in counties not on the approved list may still apply but must provide documentation that a qualifying flood or wildfire occurred where their livestock were located.

Payment Limit: The two ELRP components have a combined payment limit of $125,000 per program year; producers may request an increased limit of $250,000 via Form FSA-510.

ELRP Phase 1 payments will be equal to the eligible livestock producer’s gross 2021 LFP calculated payment multiplied by the applicable ELRP payment factor.

The ELRP payment factor will be 90 percent for beginning, limited resource, socially disadvantaged, and veteran farmers and ranchers, and 75 percent for all other producers.

For ELRP 2023/2024 Drought and Wildfire: no application is required. FSA automatically issues payments using existing 2023/2024 Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) application data (form CCC-853) already on file.

For ELRP 2023/2024 Flood and Wildfire: producers must apply through their local FSA county office. First check whether your county is on FSA's list of approved counties (no supporting documentation required if so); if not listed, submit documentation demonstrating the qualifying event. The enrollment period for this component has been extended to November 21, 2025.

• Fact Sheet

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