drought damage
Arid condition harm
Drought damage is harm to crops, vegetation, or ecosystems caused by prolonged lack of water.
The term appears most often in agricultural and insurance contexts: The farmer filed a claim for drought damage to his corn crop.
Drought damage can also affect infrastructure, as soil shrinkage cracks foundations and ruptures pipes.
- parchedExtremely dry or thirsty
- parched landExtremely dry territory
- bone dryTotally devoid of moisture
- witheredDried and shrunken
- crackedHaving surface fractures
cracked earth · dusty · dust bowl · barren · scorched · heat wave · wilted · crops · crop failure · failed harvest · famine · arid · thirsty · dried up · brown · dead · dead grass · harvest
- crop problemsblight, crop disease, root rot, wilting, fungal infection
- lawn problemsbrown patch, bare spots, dead grass, dead spots, brown spots
- weather damageice storm, lightning strikes, storm surge, lightning strike, ice dam
- deforestationclear cutting, clearcutting, clear-cutting, illegal logging, selective logging
water extremes
drought damageflood damage
Destruction from rising waters
water damage · flooding · inundation · waterlogging · oversaturation
drought, damage, droughts, damages, damaged, damaging, dryness, driest, damageable