Wildfires and Drought Ravage Northeast

These parts of the Northeast are in extreme drought, according to updated map
Dry conditions in the Northeast are worsening, creating a scenario for fire danger in the region to persist, an updated map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows.
Wildfires and Drought Ravage the Northeast, in Maps
Wildfires in New York City. Extreme drought in New Jersey. Millions of residents in several states urged to cut back water usage. This fall’s unseasonably warm weather has led to severely dry conditions with effects rippling throughout the Northeast.
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Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, told Newsweek that the last time drought to this extent was documented in the U.S. was in the fall of 2022. Nearly 63 percent of the country was in drought that November.
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Some of the hardest hit areas could require 7 inches or more of rain to end the dry spell fueling East Coast wildfires this fall.
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New Jersey’s governor declared a drought warning. Black Hawk helicopters scooped water from a lake to dump on a forest fire burning in New York state.
Parched fields and damaging blazes: The Northeast drought and wildfires in photos
Drought has parched the Northeast United States for weeks, draining reservoirs, priming the landscape for damaging wildfires and pushing politicians to implement water-saving measures.
2 charged with setting some Northeast wildfires amid NJ drought warning
New Jersey’s governor declared a drought warning. Black Hawk helicopters scooped water from a lake to dump on a burning forest in New York state. A park in Manhattan caught fire. And authorities in two states revealed criminal charges Wednesday against people accused of setting some of the wildfires that have plagued the northeast U.
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