Recently in North Carolina, there has been a large drought and with temperatures rising and the rainy months of spring not bringing much precipitation, the area is under a large threat to the local ecosystems and our yards. 

Droughts are an event in which there is a lot less precipitation than an area normally should get. This leads to plants dying, water reservoirs depleting, and the earth cracking from being dry. This can obviously have a massive impact on native ecosystems through not having water for animals to drink or the plants that other animals eat dying out. California is an obvious example of what drought does with all of their seasonal wildfires that come almost every year. 

North Carolina is having its driest year since 2008. So far in 2026 Greensboro has only had 7.5 to 8.5 inches of precipitation which is 7 less than the average. This can mostly be attributed to the 4th driest April for Greensboro NC that has been recorded with only .58 inches of rain for what many people see as a very rainy month. For the little amount of time that Hurricane Helene hit NC it dropped more than 30 inches of rain which though this was an extreme event, it helps put in proportion how little rain the area has gotten. 

The main hope to pull Greensboro out of this drought is if it rains a lot in the summer with the usual thunderstorms because fall and winter are going to come quickly as even drier months.