The Small Business Administration has issued an economic-injury disaster declaration for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness wildfires. Its notice sets July 22, 2027, as the Economic Injury Disaster Loan application deadline.
The places and dates
The declaration was issued October 22 and published in the October 27 Federal Register. Its incident period runs from July 11 through August 11, 2026. Those are the wildfire dates covered by this declaration, separate from the later issuance, publication and application deadline.
Cook and St. Louis counties in Minnesota are the primary counties. The contiguous-county list covers Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching and Lake counties in Minnesota, plus Douglas County in Wisconsin. The notice identifies both Minnesota and Wisconsin as states receiving the economic-injury declaration.
The disaster identifier is MN-20039, and the number assigned for economic injury is 219830. The notice is specifically an economic-injury declaration; it does not set a physical-damage loan deadline for this incident.
What the rate table says
The published table lists a 4.000 percent interest rate for businesses and small agricultural cooperatives without credit available elsewhere. It lists 3.625 percent for private nonprofit organizations without credit available elsewhere.
Those are the categories printed in the declaration. The table does not decide whether any particular business or organization qualifies, what it may borrow or what assistance it will ultimately receive. This is a loan notice, not an announcement of grants or completed payments.
Applying and getting help
SBA directs applicants to the MySBA Loan Portal or other locally announced in-person locations. For assistance, the notice gives the disaster customer-service number 1-800-659-2955 and the email address disastercustomerservice@sba.gov. People who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability can use telecommunications relay services by dialing 711.
The published record establishes the declaration, affected-area list, application deadline and listed rates. It does not report how many applications have been approved or how much money has been disbursed.