Drought in Lares Municipio, PR: 0 years in 10 since 2000

0 years in 10

Lares Municipio, PR: 0 of 26 full years had 13+ weeks in drought. No full-season drought since 2000.

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20002025

No year reached the drought line. Not a single drought week in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025.

A regular lawn is fine here

Real droughts are rare here. A smart controller that skips watering after rain covers the odd dry year.

You can keep a regular lawn. Worth doing: a rain-sensing or smart controller, and deeper, less frequent watering if Apr turns dry.

Against the rest of PR

76th most drought-prone of 78 PR counties; the PR middle is 0.4 in 10. Closest on the list: Las Marias Municipio (0 in 10) and Utuado Municipio (0 in 10). Driest in PR: Salinas Municipio (2.7 in 10). Least drought: Mayaguez Municipio (0 in 10).

When in the year it hits

Most often in Apr (3% of weeks), then Mar (1%) and Jan (0%). Least in Dec (0%). May to September averages 0%.

1. 0 Jan
2. 0 Feb
3. 1 Mar
4. 3 Apr
5. 0 May
6. 0 Jun
7. 0 Jul
8. 0 Aug
9. 0 Sep
10. 0 Oct
11. 0 Nov
12. 0 Dec

The worst year: 2023

2023: 5 weeks in drought, peaking at D2 severe. Across 1,401 weekly maps: 0.4% of all weeks at D1 or worse, never any D4. Longest unbroken spell: 5 weeks, Mar 28, 2023 to Apr 25, 2023.

Lately

No drought year on record. 2016-2025: 0 in 10, against 0 in 10 for 2000-2015, about the same. So far in 2026: 0 of 44 weeks in drought, through Nov 3, 2026.

Further reading

Lares Municipio lands on the plan covered in keeping a regular lawn. Its worst year, 2023, was one of the worst nationally too; see the worst years since 2000. How each of Lares Municipio's 1,401 weeks was judged: how drought is counted.