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NOAA CPC Drought Monitor Update

% of US and specific ag-belt counties in D3/D4 (extreme/exceptional) drought categories, weekly

Feed detail
Measures
% of US and specific ag-belt counties in D3/D4 (extreme/exceptional) drought categories, weekly
Source
droughtmonitor.unl.edu (US Drought Monitor) data downloads (shapefile/CSV)
Access
csv
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
Drought category expansion is the primary driver of crop-insurance indemnity payouts and directly precedes RMA loss data by weeks
Maps to
crop insurers, grain futures, water utilities
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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