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Advancing Drought Science and Preparedness across the Nation

How is Drought Affecting your Neighborhood?

Where is drought this week?

November 25-December 1, 2020

40.2%

of the US land area.

72.3 million

people are experiencing drought.

Extreme (D3) and Exceptional (D4) drought is present in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California, New Hampshire, and Hawaii.
Severe (D2) drought is present in Hawaii, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Featured Resources:

- Coastal Salinity Index (CSI) - A New Tool for Coastal Managers

Drought Status Updates Two-page status updates on drought conditions, including current conditions, impacts, and outlook:
- California-Nevada Drought Outlook - December 2019
- California-Nevada Drought Outlook - October 2019
- California-Nevada Drought & Climate Outlook Webinar - May 28, 2019
- California-Nevada Drought Outlook - March 2019

News & Updates

Three firefighters standing in front of the smoke from a wildfire

Climate Change and “Atmospheric Thirst” to Increase Fire Danger and Drought in Nevada and California

Since the start of the 21st century, California and Nevada have suffered extreme wildland fires and droughts that have caused devastating impacts to ecosystems and society. A common feature of...

NIDIS Tribal Drought Engagement Strategy

NIDIS just released its inaugural Tribal Drought Engagement Strategy, which presents guiding principles of tribal engagement, as well as key outcomes and tribal engagement activities for NIDIS and partners to implement in 2021 and...

Drought Prediction Sensitivity to Land Surface Conditions

Severe droughts are a devastating climate event and are considered one of the costliest natural disasters in the United States. With droughts impacting both ecological and economic sectors, improving the...

Featured Drought Data, Maps & Tools

Drought Impacts Report

The National Drought Mitigation Center developed this database of drought impacts, which can be searched by location, type of impact, time period and more.

Wildfire Risks

The National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise, Idaho, produces these maps monthly.

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving "flash" droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts (developing over months but lasting up to years).

How is Drought Affecting your Neighborhood?

Current Conditions for /city/, /state/ (/county/)

RTNWSHastings: NWS Hastings Drought Information Briefing (Dec. 3): https://t.co/vZf4dyteQg While above-normal Nov. precip brought some improvement this week to parts of our southeast area, most counties remain in D1-D3 Drought. Check out some VERY DRY A

RTNWSMidland: All of southeast New Mexico and nearly 75% of West Texas is now in exceptional drought (highest level of drought). Precipitation deficits continue to increase region-wide since April 1st with Midland Int'l recording a record low 2.08&qu

RTNWSWGRFC: How is the drought impacting reservoirs in Texas? Well statewide capacity has been below 80% for nearly a month, which hasn't happened that often in the past 5 years. However the past 10 years is a different story. Thanks to @twdb fo

RTNWSWGRFC: The new #DroughtMonitor over rivers in Texas and New Mexico shows some slight improvement in the East, but concerning expansion of extreme to exceptional drought out West. #txdrought #txwx #nmwx https://t.co/Du7WItkXSn

RTHPClimateCenter: Drought conditions in the Dakotas deteriorated this past week. Read more at: https://t.co/pXGTAMnk4m #Drought2020 https://t.co/gO3Qnluxcz

DroughtGov: #DroughtMonitor 12/1: Next week, @NOAA's @NWSCPC forecasts most of the lower 48 being drier than normal, with a slice of above-normal precip for part of the Rockies and Plains. Much of the lower 48 is also expected to be warmer than nor

DroughtGov: #Drought2020 in Perspective As far as breadth, 40.2% of the US is in #drought, still far from the Sept 2012 #DroughtMonitor record of 54.8%. But, as far as intensity, 8.2% of the US is in Exceptional Drought (D4). The record is 10% (or 9.99%

DroughtGov: #DroughtMonitor 12/1: The Northeast and SE TX saw substantial improvements in this week's change map. A few other scattered areas too. Degradations? W. TX, Southwest, N. Plains, parts of the upper Midwest. And, a few other scattered area

DroughtGov: #DroughtMonitor 12/1: Meteorological winter has begun. 45 states have Abnormal Dryness (D0) and a relatively dry December is forecasted. Every state west of the Mississippi River has some drought. #Drought2020's Footprint: 40.2% of the

RTCWCB_DNR: Drought Update: As #codrought2020 has persisted for 15+ weeks, @GovofCO has directed the state to enter Phase 3 of the Drought Plan - convening a new Task Force and preparing for conditions into 2021: https://t.co/2lHYf62fiC https://t.co/VLH6v

RTkswateroffice: Join us! Mary Knapp, climatologist at @KStateAgron &amp; Doug Kluck, @NOAAClimate will present current drought conditions &amp; forecast for coming months. Webinar info at https://t.co/sGG2Eibsvd. PDHs are also available for tho

RTBLMFire: Check out the December #WildfireOutlook. La Niña &amp; current fuel conditions remain the principal drivers of significant fire potential into spring. Drought conditions are expected to continue in California, Great Basin, &amp; Southw

RTNWSWGRFC: WEEKEND Outlook - Some precipitation is occurring today in East Texas and will be followed by a long dry spell. Drought conditions will expand and intensify over the next several days. #txwx #droughtTX #droughtNM #droughtCO https://t.co/5Ka0l

RTnorthcentralh2o: Join our NC3 team Dec 14th at 1 PM CT. This webinar will discuss the seasonality of specialty #crops and #drought information. Participants will also learn about graphical decision calendars and how they are used. Register here: https:/

DroughtGov: December Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks from @NOAA's @NWSCPC Below-normal precip chances and above-normal temps for most of the USA. #Drought https://t.co/gi8GTUu1Hp

News & Updates

Climate Change and “Atmospheric Thirst” to Increase Fire Danger and Drought in Nevada and California

NIDIS Tribal Drought Engagement Strategy

Drought Prediction Sensitivity to Land Surface Conditions

Featured Drought Data, Maps & Tools

Drought Impacts Report

The National Drought Mitigation Center developed this database of drought impacts, which can be searched by location, type of impact, time period and more.

Drought Impacts Report

Wildfire Risks

The National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise, Idaho, produces these maps monthly.

Wildfire Risks

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving "flash" droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts (developing over months but lasting up to years).

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

How is Drought Affecting your Neighborhood?

Current Conditions for /city/, /state/ (/county/)

News & Updates

Featured Drought Data, Maps & Tools

Drought Impacts Report The National Drought Mitigation Center developed this database of drought impacts, which can be searched by location, type of impact, time period and more.

Wildfire Risks The National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise, Idaho, produces these maps monthly.

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving "flash" droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts (developing over months but lasting up to years).

Drought Impacts Report

The National Drought Mitigation Center developed this database of drought impacts, which can be searched by location, type of impact, time period and more.

Wildfire Risks

The National Interagency Coordination Center in Boise, Idaho, produces these maps monthly.

Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

The Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) is an experimental tool that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving "flash" droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts (developing over months but lasting up to years).