| 9/17/2026 | AZ-PM-497 | AZ | Pima |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
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| September has been wet with 0.89 inches, which is 217% of normal for September as of today. Wildlife seems to be acting normal with minimal sightings to suggest they are not searching for water/food into neighborhoods. Plants are doing well. Plump cactus, tons of green, weeds, and native grasses. Tourism/Recreation seems to be doing well with social media posts highlighting many taking advantage of the cooler weather and flowing washes/waterfalls. Many area washes/creeks are flowing and much above average for this time of the year. |
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| 9/17/2026 | IL-WL-63 | IL | Will |
Near Normal
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Plants & Wildlife
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| Recent rains have greened the lawn and negated the need for watering. Growing season is near an end as tomatoes are pretty well done. |
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| 9/17/2026 | KY-CB-10 | KY | Campbell |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
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| Conditions are mildly dry where I have lived; but just across the bridge into NKU (Northern Kentucky University it is moderately dry and had hit D0 -ABNORMALLY DRY - BEGINNING OF A DROUGHT today. The HTTS MESONET station had only 0.87" of precipitation less 1 inch on the gauge for the past 30 days. About 3/4 of Campbell County now is D0 - ABNORMALLY DRY - BEGINNING OF A DROUGHT. There is only 0.1 CFS of stream flow at Dogsworth Creek for a 10 to 15 square mile watershed which indicates abnormally dry conditions. The lawns are becoming brown for almost 3/4 of Campbell County. Some of the trees are showing signs of drought stress in Cold Spring Kentucky and also at the Northern Kentucky University with wilting leaves. There is also some leaf fall on some of those trees. The lawns are patchy brown where I live which is on the other side of the Johns Hill I-275 bridge. The lawns are so dry south of latitude 39.02 degrees North that there is now a slight fire hazard from cigarette butt litter. This extremely hot weather for September is starting to cause flash drought conditions in 3/4 of Campbell County. |
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| 9/17/2026 | MA-ES-22 | MA | Essex |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Water Supply & Quality
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| The Town of Rockport has now imposed additional water restrictions as of September 18th: outdoor water use will be banned until further notice. Outdoor watering has been limited to alternate days, during early mornings & evenings, all summer. Rockport relies on local quarries for water storage, and is not connected to the Quabbin Reservoir.
In our yard, one dogwood tree has died, and a second is clearly stressed (dropping leaves). This is also happening to maple and birch trees. On some trees, leaves have simply dried up and turned brown. |
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| 9/17/2026 | MO-HL-45 | MO | Howell |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Drought conditions persist and continue to intensify. Spotty showers in the region have missed us here. Morning dew is a rarity. The ground is hard and extremely dry with a coating of fine powder at the surface. Dust is a worsening issue to pasture and livestock (particularly for risk of dust pneumonia and pinkeye). Livestock walking across the pasture raise dust clouds that rise over a couple of feet above the ground. Yards and pastures are brown and crunchy. Bare spots between individual plants continues to increase. Quite a few farmers in the area have been feeding hay or other supplements for a while now. Fire risk is very high. Pond levels continue to drop significantly; many are scummy, more are showing mud rings and even the bottom. It's turned out to be a good time to clean ponds out. Our wet-weather branches haven't run since early Spring 2025. Quite a few mature trees are dying throughout the woods with all leaves brown. A few maple trees are beginning to show Fall color. |
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| 9/17/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Mostly cloudy and warm with light winds and rain, then mostly cloudy and warm overnight with calm winds. The high temperature was around seventy four degrees, and the low around sixty one degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feederful every other day. Goldenrod, Prunella vulgaris, Soapwort, Chickory and Horse Nettle flowers are in full bloom. Apples are ripening, walnuts are 2" big. All corn have cobs from 6" to 12". A fifth cutting of hay is occurring. Blackbirds are beginning to flock. A few Black Cherry trees and spare other trees leaves are beginning to change color. The local intermittent stream is dry and the nearby trout stream is flowing at late-summer levels. |
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| 9/17/2026 | NC-CM-42 | NC | Cumberland |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| We have had very little rain this past week. The flowers on the porch are requiring daily watering. |
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| 9/17/2026 | SC-SP-124 | SC | Spartanburg |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| The Upstate is still experiencing widespread abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions.
The high heat and dry conditions have curtailed a lot of outdoor activities.
The stunted lawn growth has required additional irrigation.
Some trees are dropping their leaves already. |
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| 9/17/2026 | UT-SL-96 | UT | Salt Lake |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Severe drought continues over the region. Despite above average August precipitation, every other month this year has been below average and September is essentially dry so far. Year to date station precip of 7.39" is under 70% of average. Fire danger is currently very high to extreme at lower elevations and generally high at upper elevations. |
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