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U.S. Drought Monitor

U.S. Drought Monitor (National Drought Mitigation Center) for a piece of ground: the current map's drought categories over a GeoJSON geometry, weekly county history since 2000, the 2000-2020 spatial archive and the map calendar. Public, anonymous NDMC ArcGIS layers and statistics services.

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Use U.S. Drought Monitor for Drought current. Inspect the Alexandria inputs, ask for any missing required details, and return a small sample with sources.

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1Request
objectRequired

GeoJSON geometry (RFC 7946, WGS84, positions are [longitude, latitude]; altitude ignored): a Point, Polygon, MultiPolygon, or a Feature wrapping one. Rings must be closed. FeatureCollection, LineString and GeometryCollection are refused (`invalid_input`, one place per call). Geometries crossing the antimeridian, with more than 1000 vertices, or above the function's area cap are refused with code `too_large` or `antimeridian`. A geometry outside the U.S. Drought Monitor's coverage (United States, Puerto Rico, U.S. Pacific islands) fails with `outside_coverage`.

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const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "droughtmonitor-unl-edu",
    capability: "drought/drought_current",
    options: {
      geometry: {
        coordinates: [
          [
            [
              -100.1,
              35.26,
            ],
            [
              -100.08,
              35.26,
            ],
            [
              -100.08,
              35.28,
            ],
            [
              -100.1,
              35.28,
            ],
            [
              -100.1,
              35.26,
            ],
          ],
        ],
        type: "Polygon",
      },
    },
  },
});
2Response example

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{
  "categories": [
    {
      "code": "D3",
      "dm": 3,
      "label": "Extreme Drought",
      "percent": 100
    }
  ],
  "counties": [
    {
      "fips": "48483",
      "name": "Wheeler County",
      "state": "TX",
      "state_fips": "48",
      "statistics": {
        "d0": 0,
        "d1": 0,
        "d2": 27.55,
        "d3": 72.45,
        "d4": 0,
        "map_date": "2026-09-29",
        "none": 0
      }
    }
  ],
  "dominant": "D3",
  "in_drought": true,
  "location": {
    "area_m2": 4037899,
    "bbox": [
      -100.1,
      35.26,
      -100.08,
      35.28
    ],
    "centroid": [
      -100.09,
      35.27
    ],
    "kind": "Polygon"
  },
  "map_date": "2026-09-29",
  "method": "within",
  "missing": [],
  "observed_at_ms": 1790882272449,
  "release_date": "2026-10-01",
  "sample_points": null,
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "USDM_current (NDMC ArcGIS)",
      "observed_at": "2026-10-01T19:17:51Z",
      "url": "https://services5.arcgis.com/0OTVzJS4K09zlixn/ArcGIS/rest/services/USDM_current/FeatureServer/0"
    },
    {
      "name": "Counties (NDMC ArcGIS)",
      "observed_at": "2026-10-01T19:17:51Z",
      "url": "https://services5.arcgis.com/0OTVzJS4K09zlixn/ArcGIS/rest/services/Counties/FeatureServer/0"
    },
    {
      "name": "USDM county statistics (usdmdataservices.unl.edu)",
      "observed_at": "2026-10-01T19:17:51Z",
      "url": "https://usdmdataservices.unl.edu/api/CountyStatistics/GetDroughtSeverityStatisticsByAreaPercent"
    }
  ],
  "spatial_precision": "polygon",
  "valid_end": "2026-10-05",
  "valid_start": "2026-09-29",
  "worst": "D3"
}

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