{"id":665100,"date":"2026-05-26T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/665100\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:16:10","slug":"more-than-900000-idahoans-live-in-drought-areas-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/665100\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 900,000 Idahoans live in drought areas, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"

A water supply committee meeting last week revealed the effects of low snow pack and dry conditions on Idaho reservoirs. <\/p>\n

IDAHO, USA \u2014 Idaho’s weather rollercoaster this year had some very real effects on Idaho water level forecasts and reports.<\/p>\n

The Upper Snake River is experiencing the 8th lowest reported water supply in the past 45 years with Palisades and American Falls reservoir levels below normal, which Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) committee notes say will impact Snake River water users.<\/p>\n


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The IDWR water supply meeting report revealed many Idahoans south of the Snake River are experiencing an extreme drought, with 903,656 people in Idaho<\/a> living in a\u00a0drought area<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

April’s rainfall and low temperatures helped with water supply and Boise and Payette reservoir systems reached 100%.<\/p>\n

May has told a different story with record breaking temperatures of 96 degrees, winds and a dry climate. 90% of the year’s rainfall occurred from October to April. As the summer continues, warm, dry conditions are expected to persist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Troy Lindquist with NOAA National Weather Service Boise, reported snow pack is down due to a warm winter and echoed that April’s cool temperatures helped South West Idaho water levels, but dry conditions persisted in the Upper Snake.<\/p>\n

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Snow melted 3 weeks earlier than typically expected with 15% of snowpack remaining at the time of the report. Idaho and Wyoming currently have the most snow in the West.<\/p>\n

In Boise, there are no reported flood risks and Grant Bell with the U.S. Army Core of Engineers (ACOE), reported Boise’s reservoir system is full.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A water supply committee meeting last week revealed the effects of low snow pack and dry conditions on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-665100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665100","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=665100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}