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.
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.
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.
Continents affected with drought in gross metrics of Area affected / People affected / Change from 7 days ago
Continents affected with drought in gross metrics of Area affected / People affected / Change from 7 days ago
Global drought impact report categories aggregated for the last 12 weeks
Most reported Countries according to Number of impact reports / Main impact category / Change from 30 days ago