US Drought Monitor Scraper
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US Drought Monitor Scraper
Pull weekly US Drought Monitor severity statistics by area percent for the nation, any state, or a county. Returns map date, None and D0 to D4 coverage, valid start and end dates. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML for climate research.
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🌵 US Drought Monitor Scraper
🚀 Export weekly US Drought Monitor statistics in one run. Pull the national series, any state, or any county straight from the University of Nebraska Lincoln data service.
Turn the US Drought Monitor into clean, structured weekly records you can drop into a spreadsheet, a climate dashboard, or a research notebook. Pick an area of interest and a date range, and get one row per published map week with the share of land in each drought category.
Coverage matches what the US Drought Monitor publishes through the UNL data service: the country-wide CONUS and total series, every state by its FIPS code, and any county by its 5 digit FIPS code. Each week reports the percent of the area in None, D0 (abnormally dry), D1 (moderate), D2 (severe), D3 (extreme), and D4 (exceptional) drought.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Climate and hydrology researchers | Build long weekly drought time series |
| Agriculture and commodity analysts | Watch crop region dryness trends |
| Water utilities and policy teams | Track conditions for planning and reporting |
| Journalists and data storytellers | Chart how drought shifts week to week |
📋 What the US Drought Monitor Scraper does
This Actor calls the public US Drought Monitor area percent statistics service and returns one clean record per weekly map for the area you choose:
- United States (national) — the CONUS and total series with None and D0 to D4 coverage.
- State — pick a state and get its weekly drought breakdown.
- County — supply a 5 digit county FIPS code for county level detail with county and state labels.
You choose the date range, the statistics type, and how many records come back, and every record carries a scrapedAt timestamp.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: areaOfInterest, county, d0, d1, d2, d3, d4, fips, mapDate, none, scrapedAt, state, statisticFormatID, validEnd, validStart. All 15 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
- Open the US Drought Monitor Scraper.
- Choose an
aoi, or enter acountyFipsfor county level data. - Set
startdate,enddate, thestatisticsType, andmaxItems. - Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the US Drought Monitor, the University of Nebraska Lincoln, USDA, or NOAA. Only publicly available data is collected.
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