THE MAP · NATIONAL FOOTPRINT
09 US SITES · 01 INTERNATIONAL
Where the rain gets made.
Headquarters plus every state under contract, each backed by a field report, agency filing, or public
reporting. Tap a marker or an entry below for its field briefing and sources.
HQ · EL SEGUNDO 01 · CACHE VALLEY 02 · BEAR RIVER 03 · UMATILLA CO 04 · RUNGE 05 · ARIZONA 06 · NEW MEXICO 07 · GILL AREA 08 · KENAI HEADQUARTERS · EL SEGUNDO CACHE VALLEY · UTAH BEAR RIVER BASIN · UTAH + IDAHO UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON RUNGE, TEXAS ARIZONA NEW MEXICO GILL AREA · COLORADO KENAI PENINSULA · ALASKA
ALBERS USA PROJECTION · LOWER 48 + ALASKA · MARKERS AND STATES PER PUBLIC FILINGS AND REPORTING, MID-2026 · THIS PRESSING DOCUMENTS THE BEAR RIVER BASIN IN FULL · JORDAN LISTED BEYOND THE MAP
★ HQ · STAR El Segundo, California Rainmaker is headquartered in El Segundo, California, founded in 2023 by CEO Augustus Doricko. The company also holds municipal cloud seeding contracts with Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Public Works.
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● OP 01 Cache Valley, Utah Season one, 2024-25: Rainmaker’s first drone-based cloud seeding, flown over Cache Valley with Utah State University and North American Weather Consultants. Ten certified Elijah UAVs, fourteen missions, 80+ flight hours, and 8,637 grams of silver iodide, January 27 to April 30, 2025.
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● OP 02 Bear River Basin, Utah + Idaho This Pressing. The interstate scale-up: a state-funded pilot ($950k Idaho, up to $3.5M Utah) running 32 Elijah V2 aircraft across 7,500 square miles of the Bear River Basin, two states, with NCAR third-party validation, season November 1 to April 30. See The Basin for the full instrument.
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● OP 03 Umatilla County, Oregon Rainmaker’s first licensed precipitation-enhancement operation, winter 2024-25, under an Oregon Department of Agriculture weather-modification license issued pursuant to ORS 558. Radar-validated seeding for Oregon water users, part of the 82 seeding signatures and 143 million proven gallons across Oregon and Utah.
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● OP 04 Runge, Texas Rainmaker has been paid to boost water supply in reservoirs and aquifers across south-central Texas, including a confirmed seeding operation near Runge. Its Texas weather-modification license and project area are on record with the state licensing regulator.
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● OP 05 Arizona Arizona sits in Rainmaker’s operating footprint across the American West, shown on the company’s own coverage map alongside California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Arizona regulates weather modification under state law.
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● OP 06 New Mexico New Mexico sits in Rainmaker’s operating footprint across the American West, shown on the company’s own coverage map alongside California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas. New Mexico licenses weather modification under state law.
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● OP 07 Gill Area, Colorado Contracted work reported near Gill, in the South Platte watershed. Listed per public reporting while state permit records are verified.
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● OP 08 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska Research, not contract work: Rainmaker’s Alaska campaign on the Kenai Peninsula, including twenty-four hours of continuous flight on the last frontier. Documented in live onboard footage in Nowcasting, Dispatches from Alaska.
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◆ INTL · BEYOND THE MAP Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Rainmaker operates internationally for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, among the most water-scarce nations on Earth, in cooperation with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. Documented in Rainmaker’s own field footage of the Jordan operation.
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Every marker is backed by a primary source where one exists: a Rainmaker field report or a state agency filing, with press corroboration otherwise. Gill Area, Colorado is listed per public reporting while state permit records are verified. This Pressing documents the Bear River Basin in full; the wider footprint is compiled from public filings and reporting as of mid-2026. International work, beginning with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is listed beyond the map.
