Hazard Planning and Preparedness - Wyoming's Drought Website

Hazard Planning & Preparedness

Resources & Assistance

Wyoming Information Sharing Platform (WISP)
- Provides current situational awareness information on hazards including drought for the State of Wyoming. This site contains a series of maps, dashboards, and links to provide information regarding events and situations affecting the State of Wyoming.
Wyoming Water and Wastewater Agency Response Network (WyoWARN)
- A mutual aid and assistance network for water and wastewater utilities in Wyoming. These utilities cooperatively prepare for emergencies through mutual aid agreements, protocols, training and networking so that utilities can respond to emergencies by sharing personnel, tools and equipment.
Mullen Wildfire Recovery Information
- A collection of written and video resources with information about what to do before, during, and after a wildfire -- as well as information about wildfire ecology. Example resources include: creating a plan to protect or evacuate animals when a wildfire looms; a link to a U.S. Forest Service map that displays active fires; fire evacuation checklist; and looking for hidden dangers on property following a fire.

Stress Management

Wyoming Department of Public Health: Behavioral Health
- Learn about mental health and substance use treatements for individuals.

Condition Reporting

CoCoRaHS
- Consider signing-up to be a CoCoRaHS volunteer -- a person who measures and reports precipitation (or lack of) on a daily basis (or near daily basis). CoCoRaHS volunteers play an important role in helping to document the amount of precipitation an area does or does not receive. Do you have questions about becoming a CoCoRaHS volunteer in Wyoming? Contact Tony Bergantino at antonius@uwyo.edu.
Conditioning Monitoring Observer Reports (CMOR)
- Submit a report about the conditions in your area from too dry to too wet. You can upload photos to this system showing an area, such as a stock pond, for the current year compared to a similar timeframe during a more normal year.

Drought Planning & Management

Collaborative Drought Planning Using Scenario Exercises
- Provides information and tools to help ranchers, public land managers among others to help plan drought scenario exercises in the process of planning and managing mitigation and response activities for a hypothetical drought.
Wyoming Homeland Security Mitigation Program - Drought
- Mitigation is the effort to reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. In order for mitigation to be effective we need to take action now - before the next disaster - to reduce human and financial consequences later (analyzing risk, reducing risk, and insuring against risk). This site provides drought mitigation analysis and planning information under the mitigation plan tab.

Informed Decisions

Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms in Wyoming (AKA Blue-green Algae)
- Blue-green algae poses health risks to people, livestock, and pets. On this website you can:

Weather & Climate Information

: The NWS provies weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weathere-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information. Click on' the + sign to the right for a list of the 5 NWS offices that serve the people of Wyoming.