NOAA climate region
Upper Midwest , December 2025
Upper Midwest drought conditions normal-to-mild.
Severe drought (D2+)
0%
Monthly precip
1.48 in
Anomaly vs normal
finalizing
PHDI
-1.58
Drought coverage (% of land area)
noneD0 dryD1 moderateD2 severeD3 extremeD4 exceptional
Precipitation detail
- Observed
- 1.48 in
- 30-yr normal
- pending NOAA finalization
- Anomaly
- pending NOAA finalization
- PDSI
- -1.08
- PHDI
- -1.58
FEMA disaster declarations in period (0)
No water-relevant FEMA declarations in this period.
Methodology + sources
- Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor (UNL/NIDIS), end-of-month snapshot. Categories range from D0 (abnormally dry) to D4 (exceptional drought). d2_plus is the cumulative severe-or-worse coverage.
- Precipitation: NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance, monthly state totals, normal = 1991-2020 baseline. SPI is the Standardized Precipitation Index.
- Disasters: FEMA OpenFEMA DisasterDeclarationsSummaries, filtered to flood/storm/hurricane/drought incident types.
Covers 4 states: IA, MI, MN, WI