WI Slides into Drought News | September 7, 2023 | 0 | by Morgan McCarthy More of Wisconsin is sliding into deeper drought. This week’s U-S Drought Monitor Map is now showing a new area of exceptional drought–the top end of severity–over a section of Southwest Wisconsin. Almost all of the southern half of the state is in exceptional, extreme or severe drought. There’s also a new area of extreme drought in Northeast Wisconsin. Nearly 85 percent of Wisconsin is under some level of drought.