Drought conditions in 2018 are extreme over the Four Corners region of the United States.
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The U.S. Drought Monitor reports its lowest levels in 17 years.
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By late February 2018, an estimated 55 percent of the continental U.S. was classified as abnormally dry.
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Most of Texas is brown in this vegetation index image, revealing the negative impact drought had on plants in August 2009.
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More than 64 million people are directly affected by drought in the Southwest and Southern Plains, and far more are indirectly affected because of the vast number of farms, orchards, and ranches that supply the rest of the United States.
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Severe to extreme drought persists in the Southwest and the Plains in May 2014.
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After a wet spring, a quick-onset drought has parched fields.
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In mid-September 2015, water stored near the surface and underground in the U.S. West was far-below-normal.
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