# U.S. Drought Monitor — County/State Drought Conditions

> U.S. Drought Monitor — County/State Drought Conditions is a paid API for AI agents from 2s.io, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-09).

Returns weekly U.S. Drought Monitor data (D0–D4 severity percentages) for a given county (FIPS) or state, sourced from NDMC/USDA/NOAA.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://2s.io/api/agriculture/drought?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-09
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/u-s-drought-monitor-county-state-drought-conditions-69dc1b1b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uU2FjkY84wEcFhF7yWHei

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability u-s-drought-monitor-county-state-drought-conditions-69dc1b1b
```

Example prompt: What are the current drought conditions in Los Angeles County (FIPS 06037)? Show me the last 8 weeks of data.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, official U.S. government drought severity data at the county or state level, especially for agricultural planning, climate monitoring, insurance assessments, or water resource management. It is the canonical NDMC/USDA/NOAA drought monitor feed, not a third-party estimate.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent FIPS code returns an error or empty items array
- Non-US state codes or malformed area parameter returns a validation error
- weeks parameter exceeding 260 returns a schema validation error
- Payment not sent or insufficient USDC triggers 402 response
- Network or upstream NDMC data unavailability causes service error

## How this service works

US Drought Monitor severity for a county (5-digit FIPS) or state (2-letter code). Returns the weekly percent of area in each drought category — None, D0 (Abnormally Dry), D1 (Moderate), D2 (Severe), D3 (Extreme), D4 (Exceptional) — newest week first, plus the worst category present each week. Keyless, public-domain (NDMC/USDA/NOAA). This is the official metric behind USDA disaster-program eligibility; use for crop-risk, water, and insurance reasoning.

## Output

An array of weekly drought records, each containing the date, percentages of land area in each drought category (D0=abnormally dry through D4=exceptional drought), the percentage with no drought, and the worst drought category present. Also includes source attribution (U.S. Drought Monitor / NDMC / USDA / NOAA) with license info.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "required": [
      "area"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "area": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "5-digit county FIPS or 2-letter state code."
      },
      "weeks": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 260,
       "minimum": 1
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/u-s-drought-monitor-county-state-drought-conditions-69dc1b1b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from 2s.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/2s.io/llms.txt)