Overall Orange Drought alert for Southern Russia - Eastern Ukraine-2024 in Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine from 21 Mar 2024 00:00 UTC to 15 Jul 2024 00:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Drought for Southern Russia - Eastern Ukraine-2024

in Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine

Event summary

Mild to severe impacts to people and to one or more sectors of the economy.

Name:	Southern Russia - Eastern Ukraine-2024
Countries:	Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine
Start Date:	End of Mar 2024
Duration:	116 days
Impact:	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 649228 km2
More info:	Global Drought Observatory

GDACS Score

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Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Score	Date	Description impact	Source
1	0.5	20 May 2024 00:00	Minor impact for agricultural drought in 253352 km2	GDO
2	0.75	30 May 2024 00:00	Minor impact for agricultural drought in 285733 km2	GDO
3	1	15 Jul 2024 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 649228 km2	GDO

Affected Countries

Country
Kazakhstan
Russia
Ukraine

Affected ARU (Administrative Reporting Unit)

RDrI-Agri	Name	Country
- Medium	Atyrauskaya	Kazakhstan
- Medium	Zapadno-kazachstanskaya	Kazakhstan
- Medium	Astrakhanskaya Oblast	Russia
- High	Belgorodskaya Oblast	Russia
- Low	Dagestan Rep.	Russia
- Medium	Kalmykiya Rep.	Russia
- Medium	Karatchayevo-cherkesiya Rep.	Russia
- Medium	Krasnodarskiy Kray	Russia
- High	Kurskaya Oblast	Russia
- High	Lipetskaya Oblast	Russia
- Medium	Name Unknown	Russia
- High	Orlovskaya Oblast	Russia
- High	Penzenskaya Oblast	Russia
- High	Rostovskaya Oblast	Russia
- Medium	Ryazanskaya Oblast	Russia
- High	Saratovskaya Oblast	Russia
- Medium	Stavropolskiy Kray	Russia
- High	Tambovskaya Oblast	Russia
- Low	Tulskaya Oblast	Russia
- High	Volgogradskaya Oblast	Russia
- High	Voronezhskaya Oblast	Russia
- High	Dnipropetrovs'ka	Ukraine
- High	Donets'ka	Ukraine
- High	Kharkivs'ka	Ukraine
- Medium	Khersons'ka	Ukraine
- High	Luhans'ka	Ukraine
- High	Sums'ka	Ukraine
- High	Zaporiz'ka	Ukraine

More information

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