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Image description: This new map based on NASA satellite data expresses the historical severity of damage to crops caused by the current drought. It compares the health of crops in the central U.S. during the recent period of June 25 to July 10, 2012 to the average crop conditions between 2002 and 2012.
Brown areas show where plant growth was less vigorous than normal; cream colors depict normal levels of growth; and green indicates abnormally lush vegetation. Data was not available in the gray areas due to snow or cloud cover.
On July 11, the United States Department of Agriculture announced that more than 1,000 counties in 26 states qualified as natural disaster areas—the largest total area ever declared a disaster zone by the agency.
You can see a larger, more complete version of the map and learn more about the data and this disaster.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by Inbal Reshef, Global Agricultural Monitoring Project.

Image description: This new map based on NASA satellite data expresses the historical severity of damage to crops caused by the current drought. It compares the health of crops in the central U.S. during the recent period of June 25 to July 10, 2012 to the average crop conditions between 2002 and 2012.

Brown areas show where plant growth was less vigorous than normal; cream colors depict normal levels of growth; and green indicates abnormally lush vegetation. Data was not available in the gray areas due to snow or cloud cover.

On July 11, the United States Department of Agriculture announced that more than 1,000 counties in 26 states qualified as natural disaster areas—the largest total area ever declared a disaster zone by the agency.

You can see a larger, more complete version of the map and learn more about the data and this disaster.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by Inbal Reshef, Global Agricultural Monitoring Project.

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