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Drought conditions across the United States as of October 3, 2017. While there was plenty of yellow—abnormally dry conditions—spread over the map, less than 10% of the country was experiencing full-blown drought of some kind. And only the plains of eastern Montana were experiencing exceptional drought (darkest red.) NOAA Climate.gov image from our Data Snapshots map collection, based on data from the U.S. Drought Monitor project.