Madera County Drought Dashboard

Drinking Water and Dry Well Help

  1. Find your local agency Search by address or parcel on Madera County's interactive map.
  2. Request emergency water Self-Help Enterprise
  3. Report a dry well or apply for assistance
    Report a dry well Dry Well Assistance Program
    The assistance program is only for the Madera County GSA.

Water conditions

Madera County water conditions summary

Groundwater

Reported storage change

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Annual reported groundwater storage change

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Drought

Current categories

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Share of county area this week

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Drought category history

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Climate

Rainfall
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—inches this water year

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Rainfall history

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Sierra snowpack
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—inches SWE

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Snowpack history

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Temperature
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—°F seven-day average high

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Temperature history

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Climatology

Current season against the 1991–2020 reference

Rainfall
Cumulative, current water year
Rainfall climatology

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Sierra snowpack
Basin SWE, current water year
Snowpack climatology

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Temperature
Daily high, latest year
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Sources and notes

Groundwater storage figures are annual volumetric-change estimates submitted by local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies to California DWR. Each selection covers the entire named subbasin, including portions outside Madera County; it is not a countywide total, a real-time or absolute storage volume, or an individual-well reading. Multiple annual-report areas are summed within each subbasin and year. Sources: California's Groundwater Live, DWR's SGMA reporting overview, and the GSP Annual Report dataset.

The trends row shows the full historical record for rainfall, snowpack, and temperature; the climatology row shows the current seasonal path for the same three metrics against a 1991–2020 reference. Groundwater storage change and drought remain in their own historical views. Rainfall and temperature trends use a fixed ERA5 series. Dotted trend lines describe the historical record; they are not projections. Climate sources: U.S. Drought Monitor, Open-Meteo, and USDA NRCS.

More resources

Madera CountyDrought & Water Shortage PlanNovember 2024 PDF ↗ Drinking waterHuman Right to WaterState Water Board ↗