National Drought Mitigation Center

Building a Legacy of Preparedness

NDMC's 2020 annual report

DroughtScape Winter 2021

Read about drought expansion and intensification in the U.S. in 2020, and where its impacts were felt, efforts to make the Condition Monitoring Observer Reports system more user-friendly for citizen scientists, a study that finds some differences between ranchers with and without drought plans and more!

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Photo by Tanse Herrmann, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services South Dakota

Decisions, decisions

Study shows ranchers with drought plans in place make some pivotal moves sooner than those who don’t

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Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

Changing rates of #drought tweets reflect concern, as well as differences in states’ experiences

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Drought Risk Atlas gets major update

The DRA shows how a particular location has been affected by drought over time

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What is the U.S. Drought Monitor?

Learn about the beginning and evolution of this valuable tool

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The Drought Center helps people, organizations and institutions build resilience to drought through monitoring and planning, and we are the academic partner and web host of the U.S. Drought Monitor. Our capabilities include climatology, social science and public engagement, and we work at all scales, from individual ranches to local, state and tribal government, and countries around the world.