1.0 DCPLUS 20251011 13220200 20251011 13220200 https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/668f03c3c7024c96b550edb692d1a2bc/info/thumbnail/thumbnail1762782050851.png https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=668f03c3c7024c96b550edb692d1a2bc 668f03c3c7024c96b550edb692d1a2bc Feature Service https://services5.arcgis.com/0OTVzJS4K09zlixn/arcgis/rest/services/NDMC_DIR_view/FeatureServer NDMC DIR view 2025-10-11T13:22:02 2025-10-11T13:22:37 The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) Drought Impact Reporter (DIR) drought impacts recorded for states, counties, and cities. For drought impact data and assessments, please see the Drought Impacts Toolkit (https://droughtimpacts.unl.edu/Tools.aspx). -178.21759840010665 -67.75561508277896 71.40623540859431 25.845557389408246 1 <p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:"Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:left; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'>The Drought Impact Reporter (DIR) displays drought impacts recorded for states, counties, and cities. The National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) launched the DIR in 2005 as the nation’s first comprehensive database of drought impacts. Impacts have been systematically culled from daily media reports since July 2005, most relating to present drought, but a few reports have been about historic droughts. The earliest impacts are dated 1850.<p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:"Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:left; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'>Why track drought impacts? 1) To help policy-makers determine where to direct relief; 2) to help researchers enhance understanding of what happens when expected rain or snow doesn’t arrive; 3) to help planners know where to address underlying vulnerability, to reduce future impacts. Of course, private citizens, homeowners, farmers and ranchers, business owners and others can plan ahead if they know how drought or water shortage affects them.<p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:"Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:left; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'>The impacts in the DIR are primarily based on news stories. A moderator goes through results from an automated search each day and creates an impact when she finds evidence of an event that meets our definition of a drought impact, “a loss or change at a specific place and time due to drought.”<p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:"Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:left; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'>News-based impacts represent a very broad scan and depend on human awareness. For other drought impact data and assessments, please see the Drought Impacts Toolkit.<p style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); border:0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(74, 74, 74); font-family:"Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; margin:0px 0px 1.5rem; text-align:left; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'>The Drought Impact Reporter has been supported over the years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency and Office of the Chief Economist, and by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Sectoral Applications Research Program and the National Integrated Drought Information System.<span style='display:inline !important; float:none; font-style:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; text-align:left; text-decoration-color:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; word-spacing:0px;'>Anything credited to the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on drought.unl.edu and related websites can be freely re-used with proper attribution. 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