drought
water
climate
usdm
read-only
free
free

Drought status and recent history for the county (US Drought Monitor)

Weekly US Drought Monitor status for the county of a point, plus recent weeks. Returns D0 Abnormally Dry through D4 Exceptional Drought, with cumulative area percentages and non-overlapping bands (raw columns are cumulative). USDM describes the county, not an address, well, or parcel, and it does not set water restrictions. Direct flat-body route for this one free resource; no API key, payment, or catalog wrapper. Return only the cited bounded evidence described here; this route never produces a paid brief or full report.

post/api/locus_drought_status

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.locus.report
  • URL: https://api.locus.report/api/locus_drought_status
  • Auth: none required

Request body

addressstring

Optional US street address or place; NC uses AddressNC first, other areas use the national geocoder fallback when latitude/longitude are not provided.

latitudenumber

Optional decimal latitude; provide with longitude to skip address geocoding.

longitudenumber

Optional decimal longitude; provide with latitude to skip address geocoding.

weeksinteger

Response

Free cited evidence response.

object required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.