{"id":565408,"date":"2026-03-27T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:50:09","slug":"water-restrictions-in-florida-as-extreme-drought-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565408\/","title":{"rendered":"Water restrictions in Florida as extreme drought worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Florida<\/p>\n

Tallahassee has fallen more than 400 mm behind since the drought began in earnest last September. Rainfall totals are also running hundreds of millimetres behind in both Tampa and Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

A tiny corner of southeastern Florida, which includes Miami, has seen enough rain to just barely avoid the damaging drought unfolding across the rest of the state.<\/p>\n

Localized restrictions continue to grow as the drought persists and worsens.<\/p>\n

\"Florida<\/p>\n

Twenty-five counties from the Panhandle to the Everglades are under open burn bans<\/a> as a result of the drought-induced wildfire risk. This includes three counties where yard debris burning is never allowed, covering Duvall (Jacksonville), Orange (Orlando), and Pinellas (Tampa).<\/p>\n

Fire is a major concern when conditions are this dry. The Florida Forest Service has documented<\/a> 1,431 wildfires since the beginning of the year, which are responsible for burning nearly 35,000 hectares of land.<\/p>\n

Municipal water restrictions<\/a> are beginning to pop up in order to stave off potential water shortages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee has fallen more than 400 mm behind since the drought began in earnest last September. Rainfall totals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,6091,295,77,11696,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-565408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-drought","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-rain","14":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}