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Monthly and year-to-date state-level ranks were ingested from NCEI's Climate at a Glance page. NCEI provides the rank data in XML, CSV, and JSON formats.
USDA drought designated data were ingested from USDA Disaster Designation Information page. USDA provides a list of counties which was used to count the number of counties designated in a state.