A new U.S. Drought Monitor map shows large swaths of the country facing “extreme” to “exceptional” drought, with the most ...

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey issued a statewide water supply Drought Warning Friday amid below-average precipitation and deteriorating water supply conditions in the state. Gov. Phil Murphy ...

More than 60% of the United States is experiencing drought conditions, with more than 20% in an extreme drought. Andrew Ellis ...

An interactive map shows active Florida wildfires, including Jacksonville and St. Johns, Nassau and Clay counties.

The drought in Florida is one of the worst in years, sparking almost 2,000 wildfires and burning more than 120,000 acres ...

More than 44 million Americans live in regions now suffering under extreme drought. Drought isn’t new to Western states, but at present some of the nation’s worst drought is in the Southeast. There’s ...

Drought conditions across Iowa continued to ease as May approaches. That's in contrast to parts of the southeast, where worsening drought conditions are also fueling wildfires in states like Florida ...

A sliver of eastern Mecklenburg County and larger areas of Cabarrus and Union counties are experiencing the worst drought conditions in the state, the U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday shows.

This week’s report from the U.S. Drought Monitor doesn’t look great for Alabama. But it also doesn’t include the state’s most recent rain. The U.S. Drought Monitor releases a weekly look at drought ...

The number of active wildfires reported by the Florida Forest Service is sitting around 100 early April 28, burning more than 15,000 acres. A fire in Georgia just north of the Florida state line has ...

Large parts of the southeastern U.S. are in the midst of an exceptional drought, which is fueling dozens of wildfires in Florida and Georgia. Why is a region of the U.S. more often known for ...