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Quick Drought Response Index (QuickDRI)

Quick Drought Response Index (QuickDRI): a geospatial tool that characterizes the intensification of short-term drought condition patterns on a weekly basis across the continental United States (CONUS) at a 1-km gridded spatial resolution.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
2000 - Present
File Format
images
pdf
Data Type
Land-based Station

River DroughtCast

River DroughtCast is an interactive online tool that delivers current streamflow drought conditions and weekly forecasts of streamflow drought at approximately 3,000 USGS streamgages with more than 40 years of data across the lower 48 states.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
December 2025–present (forecasts out to 13 weeks)
File Format
other
Data Type
Model

Standardized Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) / Hypsome-SWE

This dataset contains estimates of standardized snow pack anomalies based on the depth of snow water equivalent (SWE), from NOAA/NOHRSC's SNOw Data Assimilation System (SNODAS). Hypsome-SWE represents a method to evaluate the distribution of SWE across watersheds.

Data Coverage
Regional
Period of Record
2004–present
File Format
images
Data Type
Model

State Water Supply Outlook Reports for Western United States

Reports and data on streamflow, forecasts, reservoir storage and other hydrologic information for the Western United States.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
1990 - Present
File Format
pdf
Data Type
Model