{"id":20381,"date":"2020-09-30T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=20381"},"modified":"2020-09-30T22:17:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T02:17:03","slug":"the-u-s-drought-vulnerability-rankings-are-in-how-does-your-state-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2020\/09\/the-u-s-drought-vulnerability-rankings-are-in-how-does-your-state-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. drought vulnerability rankings are in: How does your state compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new report from NOAA assesses the vulnerability of each state to drought. According to their report, &#8220;If asked where in the United States is most vulnerable to drought, you might point to those states in the West\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/event-tracker\/over-million-acres-burned-california-second-half-august-2020\">currently suffering<\/a>\u00a0under hot and dry conditions and raging wildfires. However, according to a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-4441\/12\/7\/2033\" target=\"_blank\">new NOAA-funded assessment<\/a>, what makes a state vulnerable is driven by more than just a lack of rain: it\u2019s a combination of how susceptible a state is to drought and whether it\u2019s prepared for impacts. And the most and least vulnerable states could surprise you.&#8221; You can read more about how they developed the drought vulnerability index and see how your state ranks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/us-drought-vulnerability-rankings-are-how-does-your-state-compare\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/us-drought-vulnerability-rankings-are-how-does-your-state-compare<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/09\/Drought-Vulnerability-Indexes_2020_620.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/09\/Drought-Vulnerability-Indexes_2020_620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2020\/09\/Drought-Vulnerability-Indexes_2020_620-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from NOAA assesses the vulnerability of each state to drought. According to their report, &#8220;If asked where in the United States is most vulnerable to drought, you might point to those states in the West\u00a0currently suffering\u00a0under hot and dry conditions and raging wildfires. However, according to a\u00a0new NOAA-funded assessment, what makes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":20382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20383,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20381\/revisions\/20383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}