Last week the BestPlaces team pulled together a small, simple site to help people gain a big insight into drought in the U.S. with DroughtScore.
The site takes a city name or zip code as input and spits back a score, based on 100 being normal. For example, Portland is 107.2, mild drought.
DroughtScore is a microsite, which I’ve in the past called
one trick ponies. I mean it as a compliment. By focusing on a single purpose, it helps communicate only what is important to the user. With DroughtScore, I hope we found the sticky substance.