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The areas of Iowa still under abnormally dry conditions include portions of Scott and Clinton counties, according to the monitor's weekly report. How does Iowa's drought status compare to the ...
Nearly 48% of Iowa still struggles with moderate to severe drought, and about 2% of Iowa — seven counties in northeast Iowa — is still in extreme drought, according to the Drought Monitor that ...
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report, released Thursday, shows 24% of Iowa remains in abnormally dry conditions, primarily in northeast and central Iowa. It's a drastic change from late December ...
Percent Area in U.S. Drought Monitor Categories since year 2000. A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photo: Arthur Rothstein. The United States' contiguous western and especially southwestern region has experienced widespread drought since about year 2000.
That was far less area than the Dust Bowl, which covered 70% of the United States, but the drought of 1988–1990 not only ranks as the costliest drought in United States history, it was one of the costliest natural disasters in United States history. In Canada, drought-related losses added to $1.8 billion (1988 Canadian dollars).
About 23% of Iowa's corn acres and 19% of its soybean acres are in an extreme drought, according to Gro Intelligence, a New York-based data and analytics firm that analyzed Thursday's drought ...
Polk County is the most densely populated county at 864/sq mi (333.5/km 2), an increase in density from 2010 when it was 655.5/sq mi (253.08/km 2). [7] Polk County contains the state's capital and largest city, Des Moines. In addition, Iowa has one of the smallest percentages of counties whose boundaries are dictated by natural means, the vast ...
Iowa's drought is now the longest since the 1950s, the state's climatologist says. Over four years, it's short nearly 28 inches of rain. At 188 weeks, Iowa's drought is the longest since the 1950s ...