Current Impacts
To see or report current drought impacts, please visit the Drought Impacts Toolkit, where you can find impacts from media in the Drought Impact Reporter, and from citizen scientists and other volunteer observers under Condition Monitoring Observations.
Historic Impacts
No two states experience the same set of impacts during a drought. We developed tables of impacts reported during past droughts in each state for each level of drought on the U.S. Drought Monitor. These state-specific possible impacts complement the general, national possible impacts column of the U.S. Drought Monitor Classification Scheme.
| Category | Historically observed impacts |
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| D0 | Grass fires increase |
| Lawns are brown; landscape and gardens are watered more frequently |
| D1 | Most crops and vegetation are stressed; farmed Christmas trees are stressed |
| Well levels decline |
| D2 | Corn and soybean yields are low |
| Mature trees are stressed |
| Streamflow is extremely low, potentially too low to irrigate |
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