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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
Drought in the Midwest Webinars: Conditions, Outlooks, and Resources
Kentucky Monthly Water Resources Report
Kentucky Drought Viewer
Building Knowledge to Support Climate Resilience in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Mississippi River Watershed Partnership
Visualizing Ecological Drought Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Drivers to Inform Deliberate Decision-Making
The Climate Toolbox’s Drought Recovery Tool allows users to investigate the probability of recovering from drought conditions in the Western U.S. based on past observations from 1920-2020.
Data Coverage
Regional
Period of Record
1920–2020
File Format
images
Data Type
Model
Research: Developing a Drought Early Warning System and Indices for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation