{"id":132816,"date":"2025-09-04T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/132816\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:59:08","slug":"over-half-of-maine-now-experiencing-severe-drought-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/132816\/","title":{"rendered":"Over half of Maine now experiencing Severe Drought conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – Drought conditions have worsened in Maine.<\/p>\n

The latest Drought Monitor released Thursday shows Severe Drought (D2) conditions expanding across the state. Last week, just over 10% of the state was in a Severe Drought. This week, almost 53% of the state is in the Severe Drought category. <\/p>\n

\"DroughtDrought Monitor map released Sept. 4, 2025(U.S. Drought Monitor)<\/p>\n

Areas of the state in the Severe Drought category: all of Androscoggin, Kennebec, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, Waldo and Hancock counties; most of Oxford, Franklin, and Washington counties; southern Penobscot, Piscataquis and Somerset Counties; northern Cumberland County. <\/p>\n

Many of those in the Moderate Drought (D1) category last week have been elevated to Severe Drought. Just under 10% of the state remains in a Moderate Drought.<\/p>\n

Last week, just over 24% of the state was Abnormally Dry (D0). That remained the same this week. Those areas are in Northern Maine. <\/p>\n

The Drought Monitor is valid as of Sept. 2, 2025. Data is taken from Tuesday the week prior to Tuesday of the current week. Data is then analyzed and a new map is released on Thursdays.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Drought Monitor is created in partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n

To read the latest Drought Monitor, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the latest rain chances, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2025 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – Drought conditions have worsened in Maine. The latest Drought Monitor released Thursday shows Severe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[15229,27015,192,10482,83783,24338,79],"class_list":["post-132816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-dry","tag-environment","tag-maine","tag-monitor","tag-rain","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}