SBA Disaster Notice Names Jefferson County Among Kentucky Counties in Indiana Declaration — Verify Before You Act

October 15, 2026 Di Tran

What changed: A U.S. Small Business Administration notice published October 15, 2026 lists Jefferson County and six other Kentucky counties among the contiguous counties in an Indiana disaster declaration. The notice gives application deadlines, but it does not decide whether any particular business qualifies or which assistance category applies to a specific applicant.

What the official notice says

Federal Register document 2026-21103 concerns severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flash flooding in Indiana during June 6–26, 2026. The notice lists these Kentucky counties as contiguous counties: Carroll, Daviess, Hardin, Henderson, Jefferson, Meade, and Trimble.

Physical-damage application deadline stated in the notice: December 8, 2026.
Economic-injury application deadline stated in the notice: July 9, 2027.
Application route named by the notice: the official MySBA Loan Portal.

Read the complete Federal Register notice and the current SBA disaster-assistance page before acting.

What this notice does not decide

A county appearing on a Federal Register list is not an individual eligibility determination. The notice alone does not establish a particular business’s assistance category, loan amount, approval, interest rate, repayment terms, or outcome. Those questions depend on the controlling SBA instructions and the applicant’s facts.

That distinction matters because financial decisions are consequential. Do not treat this public-source guide as financial, legal, tax, insurance, or SBA advice. Do not send tax returns, bank records, EINs, Social Security numbers, credentials, or disaster documents to NABA through ordinary email.

A careful next step for Kentucky owners

Open the official notice and confirm the county, incident, and deadline language.
Use the current official SBA disaster route to verify the assistance type and application path that apply to your situation.
Use the official portal or published SBA customer-service route for an application-specific question.
Keep NABA’s role limited to public-source navigation and resource routing; NABA does not determine eligibility or promise approval.

How NABA can help

New American Business Association can help owners identify the controlling public source and formulate a general routing question. For a non-sensitive source-navigation or small-business resource-fit inquiry, use the public NABA email route. Please do not attach private financial or disaster records.

Official sources

Last verified: October 15, 2026. This is public-source education, not individualized financial, legal, tax, insurance, employment, or SBA advice. NABA is not the SBA and does not decide eligibility, approve loans, or guarantee any result.