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Global Drought Monitoring

From early warning to on-the-ground impacts, TerraDrought delivers near-real-time insights into drought conditions across the globe. By combining forecasts, observations, and impact reports, we help users anticipate risks and respond effectively.

1 YEAR HISTORY
9 DAYS PREDICTION
GLOBAL GRAPHS

Drought Intensity ✦ TOP

Drought intensity compares the actual amount of water available to plants with the values recorded for the given area during the same time period of the year between 1961 and 2010. Each drought intensity class represents a particular drought period return probability.

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3 YEAR HISTORY
COUNTRY AVERAGES

Drought Impacts ✦ TOP

Drought impacts are sourced from online available content of news, blog posts and other publicly available text content. The layer shows number of impact reports in countries available in last 4 or 12 weeks including the reported impact categories.

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Terradrought Highlights

Affected Continents

Continents affected with drought in gross metrics of Area affected / People affected / Change from 7 days ago

Africa
17 %
14 000 000
Africa
17 %
14 000 000
Africa
21 %
89 000 000
Europe
17 %
14 000 000
Europe
17 %
14 000 000
Europe
21 %
89 000 000

Forecast for Continents

Continents affected with drought in gross metrics of Area affected / People affected / Change from 7 days ago

Africa
17 %
14 000 000
Africa
17 %
14 000 000
Africa
21 %
89 000 000
America
17 %
14 000 000
America
17 %
14 000 000
America
21 %
89 000 000

Global Impact Categories

Global drought impact report categories aggregated for the last 12 weeks

Most Reported Countries

Most reported Countries according to Number of impact reports / Main impact category / Change from 30 days ago

United States
38

Hydrology
Africa
11
Wildfires and fire occurrence
Africa
88
Wildfires and fire occurrence
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