Last Updated on November 21, 2024 5:20 pm

In the latest drought update for North Carolina, the High Country continues to be classified in drought status.

Watauga, Ashe and Avery continue in abnormally dry status again this week.

The weekly update, put out by the North Carolina Drought Management Council, shows zero counties in the Extreme Drought status, 0 counties in the Severe Drought category, 34 counties in Moderate Drought, and 66 in Abnormally Dry status.

Drought categories are based on streamflow, groundwater levels, the amount of water stored in reservoirs, soil moisture, the time of year, and other relevant factors for assessing the extent and severity of dry conditions.

D1 – Moderate Drought

  • Beaufort

  • Bertie

  • Bladen

  • Brunswick

  • Camden

  • Carteret

  • Cherokee

  • Chowan

  • Clay

  • Columbus

  • Craven

  • Currituck

  • Dare

  • Duplin

  • Franklin

  • Gates

  • Graham

  • Hyde

  • Jones

  • Lenoir

  • Martin

  • New Hanover

  • Onslow

  • Pamlico

  • Pasquotank

  • Pender

  • Perquimans

  • Pitt

  • Robeson

  • Sampson

  • Tyrrell

  • Vance

  • Warren

  • Washington

    Total: 34

    D0 – Abnormally Dry

    • Alamance

    • Alexander

    • Alleghany

    • Anson

    • Ashe

    • Avery

    • Buncombe

    • Burke

    • Cabarrus

    • Caldwell

    • Caswell

    • Catawba

    • Chatham

    • Cleveland

    • Cumberland

    • Davidson

    • Davie

    • Durham

    • Edgecombe

    • Forsyth

    • Gaston

    • Granville

    • Greene

    • Guilford

    • Halifax

    • Harnett

    • Haywood

    • Henderson

    • Hertford

    • Hoke

    • Iredell

    • Jackson

    • Johnston

    • Lee

    • Lincoln

    • Macon

    • Madison

    • McDowell

    • Mecklenburg

    • Mitchell

    • Montgomery

    • Moore

    • Nash

    • Northampton

    • Orange

    • Person

    • Polk

    • Randolph

    • Richmond

    • Rockingham

    • Rowan

    • Rutherford

    • Scotland

    • Stanly

    • Stokes

    • Surry

    • Swain

    • Transylvania

    • Union

    • Wake

    • Watauga

    • Wayne

    • Wilkes

    • Wilson

    • Yadkin

    • Yancey

      Total: 66

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