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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... This is a list of significant droughts, organized by large geographical area and then year.
From 1950 to 1957, Texas experienced the most severe drought in recorded history. By the time the drought ended, 244 of Texas's 254 counties had been declared federal disaster areas. [40] Drought became particularly severe in California, with some natural lakes drying up completely in 1953.
1950s–1960s North American drought; 1983–1985 North American drought; 1988–1990 North American drought; 2002 North American drought; 2006–2008 Southeastern United States drought; 2010–2013 Southern United States and Mexico drought; 2011–2017 California drought; 2012–2013 North American drought; 2015 Caribbean drought; 2016 New ...
Afghanistan drought Afghanistan: 1972–1973: Famine in Ethiopia caused by drought and poor governance; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to the fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule: Ethiopia: 60,000 [160] 1973 Darfur drought Darfur, Sudan: 1,000: 1974: Bangladesh famine of 1974 [161] Bangladesh: 27,000 – 1,500,000 ...
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That was far less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States, but the drought of 1988–1990 not only ranks as the costliest drought in United States history, it was one of the costliest natural disasters in United States history. In Canada, drought-related losses added to $1.8 billion (1988 Canadian dollars).
Yale's archrival, the Harvard Crimson, can claim the title of longest tournament drought in history. TThe Crimson went 66 years, from 1946 to 2012, without an appearance in the NCAA Men's ...
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