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Drought Indicators: Soil Moisture Product Dashboard

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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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The following soil moisture products are presented together to facilitate analysis – interpret with caution. If you have questions, please email drought.portal@noaa.gov.

Maps
Dataset Name

NASA SPoRT-LIS 0-100 cm Soil Moisture Percentile

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/25/25

Soil moisture data from NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT) were available in raster format.

Source(s)
Dataset Name

Crop-CASMA: Sub-9km Soil Moisture Anomaly (1m)

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
09/01/24

Soil moisture data from Crop-CASMA were available in GeoTIFF format. GIS software used the GeoTIFF format to create the map tiles used on Drought.gov.

Source(s)
Update Schedule

Data are updated daily, with a 3-day delay.

Dataset Name

GRACE Root Zone Soil Moisture Percentile

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/18/25

Soil moisture data from GRACE were available in GeoTIFF format. GIS software used the GeoTIFF format to create the map tiles used on Drought.gov.

Source(s)
Update Schedule

Data from NASA GRACE are updated daily, with a 4-day delay.

Dataset Name

RK/NLDAS 50cm Blend: Soil Moisture Percentile

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/24/25

Soil moisture data from NationalSoilMoisture.com were available in ASCII format. The ASCII data were ingested and converted to raster data using GIS.

Source(s)
Update Schedule

Data are updated daily, with a 5-day delay.

Dataset Name

Climate Prediction Center Leaky Bucket Daily Soil Moisture Percentile

Update Schedule
Valid on
Last Update
10/24/25

Soil moisture data from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center were available in GeoTIFF format. GIS software used the GeoTIFF format to create the map tiles used on Drought.gov.

Source(s)
Map
Dataset Name

CPC NLDAS Noah Soil Moisture Percentiles: Total Column

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/19/25

Data for NLDAS Noah soil moisture percentiles were available from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

Source(s)
Update Schedule

This map updates daily, with a 5-day delay.

Map Cards
Dataset Name

NASA SPoRT-LIS 0–100cm Soil Moisture Percentile

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/25/25

Soil moisture data from NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT) were available in raster format.

Source(s)
Dataset Name

GRACE-Based Root Zone Soil Moisture Drought Indicator

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/18/25

Soil moisture data from GRACE were available in GeoTIFF format. GIS software used the GeoTIFF format to create the map tiles used on Drought.gov.

Source(s)
Dataset Name

NLDAS/RK Blend: 50 cm Soil Moisture Percentiles

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/24/25

Soil moisture data from NationalSoilMoisture.com were available in ASCII format. The ASCII data were ingested and converted to raster data using GIS.

Source(s)
Map
Dataset Name

CPC NLDAS Noah Soil Moisture Percentiles: Total Column

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/19/25

Data for NLDAS Noah soil moisture percentiles were available from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

Source(s)
Update Schedule

This map updates daily, with a 5-day delay.

Map
Dataset Name

Crop-CASMA: Sub-9km Soil Moisture Anomaly

Update Schedule
Data Valid
Last Update
10/21/25

Soil moisture data from Crop-CASMA were available in GeoTIFF format. GIS software used the GeoTIFF format to create the map tiles used on Drought.gov.

Source(s)

NASA, USDA, George Mason University

Update Schedule

Data are updated daily, with a 3-day delay.