{"id":888204,"date":"2026-10-19T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888204\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:08:09","slug":"nearly-two-thirds-of-idaho-is-currently-in-a-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888204\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly two-thirds of Idaho is currently in a drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boise, Idaho (CBS2) &#8211; The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drought.gov\/states\/idaho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> latest data <\/a>from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows 65.8% of Idaho is in a drought.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of southern Idaho are experiencing the most severe drought conditions in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Data shows 6.7% of Idaho is in the exceptional drought category with 18.7% of the state in the extreme drought category.<\/p>\n<p>The state also had the 22nd driest January-September on record going back to 1895 and the 33rd wettest September on record also going back to 1895.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boise, Idaho (CBS2) &#8211; The latest data from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows 65.8% of Idaho is in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-888204","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\/888204","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=888204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}