A wildfire burns in the Turtle Mountain area of North Dakota on Sunday, May 4, 2025. Credit: AP/Wanda Parisien Seventy-five to 100 firefighters responded on Sunday, the busiest day, Parisien said.

Cumulatively the drought map is showing signs of less stress in Plains each week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Much of the state is in some level of drought, including a swath of western North Dakota in severe or extreme drought, according to a recent map by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

One of the wettest Mays in the last 1 ½ centuries has eliminated extreme drought in western North Dakota, though the region remains mired in lesser forms of dryness.

Nearly all of the western half of North Dakota remains in moderate, severe or extreme drought, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor, a partnership of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

North Dakota officials were ordered by federal Judge Peter Welte to adopt the map, but an appeals court has reversed that ruling, and Sec. of State Michael Howe says the state will be returning to ...