Drought Planning Using Community Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

This project used climate data to develop, test, and disseminate a toolkit that applies the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) process to drought scenarios using climate and hydrological data. The Platte River Basin in Nebraska was the pilot site for developing and testing the Drought THIRA Toolkit.

This project was part of the FY 2016 Coping with Drought research competition, which focused on advancing specific NIDIS regional Drought Early Warning Systems (DEWS), targeting specific communities and sectors within these areas. The four targeted regions and their associated focus areas included the Missouri River Basin (agricultural and/or water supply focus); Midwest along the Mississippi River (transportation, agricultural, and/or water supply focus); Colorado River Basin (water supply, recreation, tourism, and/or energy focus); and California (water, agricultural, and/or wildfire focus).

For more information, please contact Molly Woloszyn (molly.woloszyn@noaa.gov).