Crops · dekad 2026-08-11
Djibouti
Djibouti is 4th most stressed of 26 observations for this point in the season, and 2nd steepest fall of 26, but from the 5th highest starting level of those 26, so it is not a record fall once that is accounted for. Its single crop region is not at a record low on the measure that adds up the whole season, marked below, which is also the slowest of them to move.
What moved, and when
Each square is one dekad, and its shade shows how many of this country’s crop regions stood at their own worst on record for that point in the season. Rows are ordered by how much time each instrument summarises, shortest first, because a shorter window can move sooner. That order is fixed and is the same on every country page.
The driver is water. This section says what moved and when. It never says because.
These 23 dekads were picked rather than derived. A shorter window changes which peak looks like the first, and a sequence visible inside a window may not exist outside it.
How bad is it, against this country’s own record
Five instruments read together our combination, not an observation
4th worst of 26 years at this point in the season
The 4th most stressed of 26 observations for this point in the season, 2001-2026, across 5 instruments read together
- Every input is measured against its own record, but no source publishes this average. It is our combination, not an observation.
- This value places the country against itself, so it does not rank countries against each other. Its year-to-year spread here is 0.252, and that spread differs by place, so a higher value elsewhere can be a less unusual year than this one. The rank is the comparable figure.
- A reading of conditions to date. It carries no statement about the rest of the season.
What the instruments say
The canopy is in the middle of its range, while water satisfaction and rainfall are in their worst third.
Each track is that instrument’s own 26 years, worst on the left.
Five instruments, each against its own 26 years for this point in the season. They are shown together because they can disagree: a region can sit at a record low on vegetation while water or rainfall sits in its best third. 38 of the 196 regions at a record low on current vegetation have water or rainfall sitting in its own best third at the same moment, about one in five. This page reports where each one sits and does not say what caused what.
The one crop region of Djibouti
The bar is the full spread of that region’s previous 25 years at this point in the season. The dot is this year. A dot at the left of a wide bar and a dot at the left of a narrow bar are different findings, which is why the history is drawn rather than described.
A region in colour is at its worst on record. This country has one crop region in ASAP’s mask, so the country figure above and this bar are the same measurement seen twice, not a country summarised from its parts.
Djibouti
-0.36 12th lowest of 26 observations for this point in the season, 2001-2026
Vegetation here usually tracks water availability.
same dekad, 2001-2025
This measurement is of the crop canopy and not of what stressed it: heat, drought, disease and late planting are not separable here, which is why no claim on this page names a cause.