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U.S. Drought Monitor

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U.S. Drought Monitor (National Drought Mitigation Center / UNL) — authoritative weekly drought-severity statistics (None, D0–D4) for the U.S. national / state / county since 2000. Drives water-availability, frac-water and produced-water sourcing, reservoir/hydro, agriculture and wildfire-risk decisions. No auth.

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What you can ask

  • “What does U.S. Drought Monitor have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
  • “Pull the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor records and put them in a table.”
  • “What does U.S. Drought Monitor cover, and how fresh is the data?”

About this source

U.S. Drought Monitor (National Drought Mitigation Center / UNL) — authoritative weekly drought-severity statistics (None, D0–D4) for the U.S. national / state / county since 2000. Drives water-availability, frac-water and produced-water sourcing, reservoir/hydro, agriculture and wildfire-risk decisions. No auth.

Connector ID us-drought-monitor

Provenance

PublisherU.S. Drought Monitor
API basehttps://usdmdataservices.unl.edu/api

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicNot declared
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

› Methods (5)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • getNationalDroughtStatistics

    read

    National weekly drought-severity percentages over a date range

    Required paramsstartDateendDate

    Dates use M/D/YYYY; aoi is conus|us; statisticsType 1=area or 2=population.

  • getStateDroughtStatistics

    read

    Per-state weekly drought-severity percentages

    Required paramsstateFipsstartDateendDate

    stateFips plus M/D/YYYY startDate/endDate; optional statisticsType.

  • getCountyDroughtStatistics

    read

    Per-county weekly drought-severity percentages

    Required paramscountyFipsstartDateendDate

    countyFips plus M/D/YYYY startDate/endDate; optional statisticsType.

  • getConsecutiveWeeksInDrought

    read

    Per-county consecutive-weeks-in-drought spans for a state

    Required paramsstateAbbrstartDateendDate

    stateAbbr and M/D/YYYY dates; dx 0-4 (default 1); minimumWeeks default 1.

  • getServiceInfo

    read

    Static API overview — aoi conventions, date format, D0–D4 scale, statisticsType