Drought.gov Climate Engine
Cloud-based climate and drought monitoring
drought.gov
At a glance
- Region
- United States
- Coverage
- Daily drought indices
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- Drought Monitoring
- Climate Data
- Precipitation Index
- Temperature Data
- SPEI Index
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Drought indices
Track SPI and SPEI style indices for declarations and relief.
Because it has: Drought Monitoring
- 02
Planning
Plan reservoir releases and cropping for a dry year.
- 03
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
Because it has: Climate Data
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Onset forecasts
Predict drought onset months ahead from climate signals.
- 02
One risk score
Combine many indices into a single, explainable risk score.
- 03
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Climate Engine API (climateengine.org)
Licence: US Government public domain
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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