Drought.gov - Maps, Graphs, and More

The National Integrated Drought Information System is a multi-agency partnership that coordinates drought monitoring, forecasting, and planning. It collects and integrates information on the key indicators of drought and offers usable, reliable, and timely drought forecasts and assessments of associated risks to facilitate proactive decision making. At Drought.gov, you'll find information about current drought conditions, historical drought, drought impacts, outlooks, forecasts, reports, research, events, and news at the local to international level.

Where did these data come from?

Drought.gov pulls information from a wide variety of sources and partners across the U.S. Federal government, state governments, tribal governments, municipalities, and universities, including the U.S. Drought Monitor, National Drought Mitigation Center, National Weather Service, NOAA, USDA, USGS, EPA, and regional climate centers.

• How-To

  Use the site's navigation to select information by type (current, historical, impacts, outlooks, forecasts), by sector (agriculture, manufacturing, water utilities, ecosystems, transportation, wildfire, energy, public health, hazards, recreation, tourism), by location (local, county, state, regional, watershed, tribal, national, international) or browse by topics such as flash drought, drought early warning, or soil moisture. 

• Data Access
  Data Format(s)

  TXT (ASCII), CSV, GeoTIFF, JSON, KML, netCDF-3, netCDF-4, PDF, PNG, shapefile, XML, Other

  Access Type	Link & Description
  Visualization	National Current Conditions Explore interactive maps of drought conditions and indicators of drought.

• Documentation

  Documentation Type	Link & Description
  General	About NIDIS

• Related Datasets
  U.S. Drought Monitor

  A weekly map—updated each Thursday—that shows the location and intensity of areas currently experiencing abnormal dryness or drought across the United States.
• Technical
  Data Type

  Land-based station, Model, Paleoclimate, Radar, Satellite

  Essential Climate Variables

  Air temperature, ,

  Ancillary Variables

  Drought indicators, Palmer Drought Severity Index, Evaporative Demand Drought Index, Potential Flash Drought

  Science Organization

  NOAA

  Email

  drought.portal@noaa.gov
• FAQs

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