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The Dust Bowl of the 1930's lasted about a decade. Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not so badly effected, but nonetheless, the drought, windblown dust and agricultural decline were no strangers to the north.

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The Dust Bowl was not solely caused by drought. It was a complicated conflicts of three factors that combined to create a natural disaster of epic proportions: weather, poor farming practices, and lack of environmental understanding.

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President Hoover was slow to respond to the crisis but various relief programs and agencies were initiated in President Roosevelt's 'New Deal'.

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The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.