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drought.county_stats

mock data$0.001 / call

US County Drought Statistics

Retrieve weekly county-level drought statistics from the USDA/NOAA US Drought Monitor for a specific county or all counties in a US state. Pass a 5-digit FIPS code (e.g. "48113" for Dallas County TX, "06037" for Los Angeles County CA) to get a single county, or a 2-letter state abbreviation (e.g. "TX", "CA", "NE") to get all counties in that state. Returns drought severity by area (square miles) at each drought level (D0–D4) per week. Useful for granular agricultural impact assessment, insurance risk modeling, and local government drought planning.

Weatherprovider: Drought#drought#weather

Input schema

aoirequired

Area of interest: either a 5-digit county FIPS code (e.g. "48113" for Dallas County TX, "06037" for Los Angeles County CA) or a 2-letter state abbreviation to get all counties in a state (e.g. "TX", "CA", "NE").

string
end_daterequired

End date for the query range in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g. "2022-08-14"). Maximum range is 1 year from start_date.

string
start_daterequired

Start date for the query range in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g. "2022-08-01"). USDM publishes weekly on Tuesdays; dates snap to the nearest release.

string
statistics_type

How drought levels are counted: "cumulative" (default) means each D-level includes worse levels; "categorical" means each level is non-overlapping and mutually exclusive.

string

Call via REST

curl -X POST https://unifyapi.pro/api/call/drought.county_stats \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer uak_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"aoi":"<aoi>","end_date":"<end_date>","start_date":"<start_date>","statistics_type":"<statistics_type>"}'

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