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The Drought.gov team reformats data from multiple partners into web- and GIS-ready formats, which we use throughout Drought.gov. These data, hosted on Google Cloud Storage, are free for all to download or reference directly from their web applications.

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Dataset Name

National Weather Service Drought Information Statements

Update Schedule
Updates Daily
Last Update
11/29/23

Drought information statements were ingested from the various National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices (WFO). WFOs with statements published within the past 35 days are joined with spatial data for visualization purposes. 

Source(s)
Update Schedule

Weather Forecast Offices issue drought information statements as needed based on local conditions. This map is updated daily.

Dataset Name

Total Cost of Billion-Dollar Drought Disasters by State (Since 1980)

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/10/23

U.S. Billion-Dollar Disaster cost data from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), available in text form, was joined to a spatial file of the United States.

Source(s)
Update Schedule

Billion-dollar disaster data are updated quarterly.