Disaster Analysis 2025

NASS can now monitor agricultural disasters in near real-time and provide quantitative assessments using remotely sensed data and geospatial techniques. This page provides disaster assessments in geospatial data format, reports, and metadata as available. A flood monitoring methodology paper is located here. Flood detection and the estimation of impacted crop acres were conducted using an updated GEE web app RAPID V2.0 Beta (Real-time Assessment and Prompt Inundation Detection).

Texas Flooding – July 2025

Heavy rainfall in early July triggered by Tropical Storm Barry resulted in catastrophic flooding across Central Texas, the Hill Country, and Concho Valley. Communities along the Guadalupe River, which reached a major flood stage, were devastated. Flash flooding resulted in significant loss of life, damage to property, and flooded croplands. The United States Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) produced an assessment on the extent of potential damage to agricultural land and activities from this event. A disaster assessment was conducted using available Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and cloud-free Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8/9 imagery coverage to identify likely inundated areas by the flooding event in early July 2025. Inundated areas were then compared to the 2024 Cropland Data Layer (CDL) to estimate crops potentially affected by the floods.


Files available for download: Synopsis | Event Report (PDF) | Event Report (PPTX)



Map of Texas Floods - July 2025
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Last Modified: 07/22/2025