@pipeworx/us-drought-monitor

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Tools: 3

Weekly U.S. drought-severity statistics — percent of area and percent of population in categories None, D0 (abnormally dry) through D4 (exceptional drought) — for the nation, each state, and each county.

Tools

• us_drought_national(area?, measure?, start_date?, end_date?) — national drought statistics for the contiguous U.S. (conus), the contiguous states plus Alaska/Hawaii/Puerto Rico (total), or both at once (us). Answers “what percent of the contiguous US is in drought right now?”
• us_drought_state(state, measure?, start_date?, end_date?) — drought statistics for one state or territory, given by name, postal abbreviation, or 2-digit FIPS code.
• us_drought_county(state?, county?, fips?, measure?, start_date?, end_date?) — drought statistics for one county, matched by state + county name or by 5-digit FIPS code.

All three categories are cumulative, which is the Drought Monitor’s own convention: d1_pct means “at least D1” (D1 through D4 combined), not D1 alone. measure picks area (percent of land area, default) or population (percent of the area’s population). Omit the date arguments for the latest published map; pass start_date/end_date (YYYY-MM-DD or M/D/YYYY) for a range of weekly maps.

The map is valid every Tuesday and the Center releases it the following Thursday — every response carries map_date, valid_start, valid_end, and data_as_of so a caller never has to guess which week a figure belongs to.

Auth

Keyless. The upstream data service has no registration or key requirement.

Data sources

• National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), with the USDA and NOAA — the U.S. Drought Monitor’s weekly drought-severity statistics (comprehensive area and population percent by category, for the nation, states, and counties).

Notes

• Counties are matched by name against the full county list the publisher returns for a state (rather than carrying a ~3,100-row FIPS table in the pack), so a county name that exists in more than one form (e.g. “St. Louis” vs. “St. Louis City”) should be disambiguated with the 5-digit fips argument if the name match is ambiguous.
• An area/state/county with no map in the requested window comes back from the upstream as an empty (but successful) result — the tools report that as found: false with a reason, not a thrown error.

Tools

• us_drought_national — Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor drought-severity statistics for the nation: percent of area or percent of population in categories None, D0 (abnormally dry) through D4 (exceptional drought). Categories ar
• us_drought_state — Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor drought-severity statistics for one U.S. state or territory: percent of area or percent of population in categories None, D0 (abnormally dry) through D4 (exceptional drough
• us_drought_county — Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor drought-severity statistics for one U.S. county: percent of county area or percent of county population in categories None, D0 (abnormally dry) through D4 (exceptional drou