Our Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch website helps land managers prepare for and respond to drought: https://ranchdrought.unl.edu/
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Drought and dryness worsened across parts of the West, High Plains, South and Southeast, with areas of improvement in Idaho and Montana.
Conditions also improved in parts of the Midwest and Northeast, with an area of degradation in New Jersey.
See more change maps: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/ChangeMaps.aspx
Monitor de Sequía de los Estados Unidos
Mapa publicado: abril 2, 2026
U.S. Drought Monitor April 2, 2026
For the 50 states and Puerto Rico, the U.S. Drought Monitor shows 50.07% in moderate drought or worse, compared to 46.97% last week.
Drought expanded and intensified across most of the country with a few spots of improvement in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest and Northeast. Drought (D1-D4) covers 56.21% of the US, up 1.4 points from last week.
The last time there was this much drought in the US was the week of Nov. 29, 2022, when 57.51% of the contiguous US was affected.
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https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus
ICYMI: Our March edition of the Dry Horizons newsletter is now available. https://drought.unl.edu/Publications/DryHorizons.aspx
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Drought and dryness worsened in parts of the West, with some improvement in Washington and Montana. Conditions also worsened in parts of the High Plains and South. Improvements occurred in parts of the Northeast and Hawaii. Mixed conditions occurred in parts of the Midwest and Southeast, plus Alaska.
See more change maps: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/ChangeMaps.aspx
NWS Atlanta Bot
Drought Center
Denise Gutzmer