Drought CenterDrought cost the western U.S. $3.1 billion in 2025. Read more in the annual drought summaries: https://drought.unl.edu/Publications/DroughtSummaries.aspx
Months without rain cut the hay season short in Florida. In addition, southwest Florida was under a Phase I Water Shortage in December.
Read more in the December drought impacts summary: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ef9e99717bc94f84877b7f2eb0c51424
In December, above-normal precipitation improved conditions in parts of the western U.S.
Read more in the December drought climate summary: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dcb4366d00bd41cd899ba70a82205a3b
Monitor de Sequía de los Estados Unidos
Mapa publicado: diciembre 31, 2025
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Drought improved in parts of the Northwest, West and Upper Midwest in the past week but expanded and intensified in parts of the south, especially Tennessee and Mississippi, and in small areas across the Great Plains.
See more change maps: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/ChangeMaps.aspx
US Drought Monitor 12-31-25
For the 50 states and Puerto Rico, the US Drought Monitor shows 35.9% in moderate drought or worse, compared to 34.75% last week.
Additional drought monitoring tools are available on our website. https://drought.unl.edu/Monitoring.aspx
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Dryness or drought worsened in parts of the High Plains and South, with an area of improvement in southern Texas. Alaska also saw degradations.
Conditions improved in the Pacific Northwest and Montana, plus Hawaii. Parts of the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest saw mixed conditions.
See more change maps: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/ChangeMaps.aspx