South Dakota Sees Major Drought Improvement Across 14 Counties, Extreme Drought Shrinks

MITCHELL, S.D. (MITCHELLNOW) The South Dakota Drought Monitor, updated weekly, shows parts of 14 counties are no longer in drought conditions.

Those counties are Corson, Campbell, Perkins, Meade, McPherson, Ziebach, Faulk, Hyde, Sully, Hughes, Lyman, Tripp, Davison and Hanson.

Only tiny portions of the state are in D-3, or extreme drought conditions. They’re in the southwest corner of the state, in Fall River and Oglala Lakota counties. For more of your weather outlook, click here.