The Internal Revenue Service has extended the April 15 tax filing deadline in all or parts of 12 states that were devastated in 2024 or early 2025 by disasters, including wildfires, hurricanes and flooding.

Oregon taxpayers still must meet the 11:59 p.m. April 15 deadline because no disaster warranted a large enough response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to qualify state taxpayers for an automatic IRS extension. Specifically, parts of Oregon that were hit hard by a January 2024 ice storm or record-setting wildfires in the summer and fall didn’t meet the IRS threshold. Taxpayers who don’t file by April 15 or request an extension could be penalized.

It’s a different story elsewhere.

The IRS automatically pushed back the filing deadline to May 1 in five states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina — for all residents. Hurricane Helene tore across all of these states after first striking Florida as a Category 4 storm last September.

Taxpayers in the Juneau area of Alaska, one county in New Mexico and wide swaths of Tennessee and Virginia also don’t have to file until May 1.

Residents of Los Angeles County in California, which lost more than 16,000 homes and structures as it endured the most destructive wildfires in California history in January 2025, don’t have to file until Oct. 15.

The IRS has extended the deadline for all of Kentucky — which saw damage from tornadoes, mudslides and other catastrophes, including the remnants of Hurricane Helene — until Nov. 3. That’s also the deadline for a dozen counties in West Virginia, which had a rough start to 2025.

— Aimee Green is covering the Oregon Legislature this session. Reach her at 503-294-5119, [email protected] or on Bluesky.

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