State agencies, non-governmental organizations and others may conduct post-drought assessments to better understand how drought affected agriculture, health, food security, energy, communities and other areas of interest, and to document responses and outcomes. These assessments are extremely valuable for learning from one drought to the next, but they can be hard to find if you don’t know that they are there. This archive is intended to become a permanent repository for post-drought assessments. To recommend additional resources for this list, please email ndmc@unl.edu.
State-level
Alabama
California
Florida
Georgia
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Washington
Regional
- National Drought Mitigation Center, 2013: From Too Much to Too Little: How the central U.S. drought of 2012 evolved out of one of the most devastating floods on record in 2011 | Executive Summary
- Western States Water Council, August 2013: Measuring, Quantifying and Reporting Drought Impacts
- National Drought Mitigation Center: The Dust Bowl
- National Integrated Drought Information System, 2019: Flash Drought: Lessons Learned from the 2017 Drought Across the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies (full report)
- Hoell, A., and Coauthors, Lessons Learned from the 2017 Flash Drought Across the U.S. Northern Great Plains and Canadian Prairies. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0272.1.
- Office of the Washington State Climatologist, UW Climate Impacts Group, Oregon State Climatologist, Idaho Department of Water Resources, 2021: 2020 Pacific Northwest Water Year Impacts Assessment
- Konrad, C., and P. Knox, 2016: The Southeastern Drought and Wildfires of 2016
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sept. 2022: Drought Impacts on Hydroelectric power Generation in the Western United States
National
Continental
Global
To recommend additional resources for this list, please email ndmc@unl.edu.