Peak Drought Record, 2016 (U.S.)
North AmericaPhysical EnvironmentIntensity of drought conditions on March 1, 2016
U.S. Drought MonitorA map shows drought conditions in the western U S. Cream (Abnormally dry) areas from North Dakota to Arizona. Orange (Moderate) in parts of Montana and Utah. Brown (Extreme) in western Nevada. Dark brown (Exceptional drought) in California.
D0 Abnormally Dry | D1 Drought - Moderate | D2 Drought - Severe | D3 Drought - Extreme | D4 Drought - Exceptional | Class | Rank | Quadrillion BTUs | Class | Rank | Percent | Adams | Akutan | Aniakchak | Atka | Bachelor | Baker | Belknap | Black Butte Crater Lava Field | Black Peak | Black Rock Desert | Blue Lake Crater | Buzzard Creek | Carrizozo | Chiginagak | Churchill | Cleveland | Crater Lake | Craters of the Moon | Dana | Davis Lake | Diamond Craters | Dotsero | Edgecumbe | Edziza | Fisher | Fourpeaked | Garibaldi | Glacier Peak | Golden Trout Creek | Great Sitkin | Griggs | Haleakala | Hayes | Hell's Half Acre | Hood | Hoodoo Mountain | Hualalai | Iliamna | Imuruk Lake | Indian Heaven | Iskut-Unuk River Cones | Jefferson | Jordan Craters | Kaguyak | Katmai | Kilauea | Kiska | Korovin | Kupreanof | Lassen Volcanic Center | Little Sitkin | Mageik | Makushin | Mammoth Mountain | Markagunt Plateau | Martin | Mauna Kea | Mauna Loa | Meager | Medicine Lake | Mono Lake Volcanic Field | Mono-Inyo Craters | Nazko | Newberry | Novarupta | Okmok | Pavlof | Rainier | Red Hill | Redoubt | Roundtop | Salton Buttes | San Francisco Volcanic Field | Sand Mountain Field | Seguam | Semisopochnoi | Shasta | Shishaldin | Snowy Mountain | Spurr | St. Helens | St. Paul Island | Takawangha | Tanaga | Three Sisters | Trident | Tseax River Cone | Ubehebe Craters | Ugashik-Peulik | Uinkaret Field | Ukinrek Maars | Veniaminof | Vsevidof | Wapi Lava Field | Wells Gray-Clearwater | West Crater | Westdahl | Wrangell | Yantarni | Yellowstone | Yunaska | Zuni-Bandera | |
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