From snowpack data, to river forecasts to climate predictions, there's a lot of science behind a drought declaration.

The United States just recorded its driest start to a year since 1910, as a rare drought spreads across regions that rarely ...

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey issued a statewide water supply Drought Warning Friday amid below-average precipitation and deteriorating water supply conditions in the state. Gov. Phil Murphy ...

The drought in Florida is one of the worst in years, sparking almost 2,000 wildfires and burning more than 120,000 acres ...

More than 44 million Americans live in regions now suffering under extreme drought. Drought isn’t new to Western states, but at present some of the nation’s worst drought is in the Southeast. There’s ...

The N.C. Forest Service map shows the 19 counties, in red, where the state-issued burn ban remains in effect. All Western North Carolina counties are shown in white, which means open burning is ...

This article was written by WTOP’s news partner, The Banner Montgomery, and republished with permission. Subscribe to The Banner Montgomery here. Federal officials have placed Maryland under a ...

Drought conditions across Iowa continued to ease as May approaches. That's in contrast to parts of the southeast, where worsening drought conditions are also fueling wildfires in states like Florida ...

A sliver of eastern Mecklenburg County and larger areas of Cabarrus and Union counties are experiencing the worst drought conditions in the state, the U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday shows.

This week’s report from the U.S. Drought Monitor doesn’t look great for Alabama. But it also doesn’t include the state’s most recent rain. The U.S. Drought Monitor releases a weekly look at drought ...

The number of active wildfires reported by the Florida Forest Service is sitting around 100 early April 28, burning more than 15,000 acres. A fire in Georgia just north of the Florida state line has ...

Arkansas’ weather seems to have hit fast forward in 2026, largely skipping the stormy, rainy portion of spring as farmers open irrigation taps early to get their row crops growing. “It’s almost ...