Drought in Todd County, KY: 0.8 years in 10 since 2000

0.8 years in 10

Todd County, KY: 2 of 26 full years had 13+ weeks in drought. Less drought-prone than most US counties.

1. 12
2. 11
3. 0
4. 0
5. 0
6. 8
7. 4
8. 21
9. 11
10. 0
11. 11
12. 11
13. 12
14. 0
15. 2
16. 5
17. 8
18. 0
19. 0
20. 4
21. 0
22. 0
23. 14
24. 0
25. 6
26. 7

20002025

Drought years: 2007 (21 wk) and 2022 (14 wk). Not a single drought week in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2023.

A regular lawn is fine here; plan for the odd dry year

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 Oct turns dry.

Against the rest of KY

101st most drought-prone of 120 KY counties; the KY middle is 1.2 in 10. Closest on the list: Shelby County (1.2 in 10) and Butler County (0.8 in 10). Driest in KY: Calloway County (2.3 in 10). Least drought: Grant County (0.4 in 10).

When in the year it hits

Most often in Oct (20% of weeks), then Nov (20%) and Sep (17%). Least in Mar (2%). May to September averages 13%.

1. 11 Jan
2. 8 Feb
3. 2 Mar
4. 4 Apr
5. 8 May
6. 13 Jun
7. 15 Jul
8. 10 Aug
9. 17 Sep
10. 20 Oct
11. 20 Nov
12. 15 Dec

The worst year: 2007

2007: 21 weeks in drought, peaking at D4 exceptional. Across 1,401 weekly maps: 11.9% of all weeks at D1 or worse, 5.6% at D2, 1.5% at D3, 5 weeks with some of the county in D4. Longest unbroken spell: 21 weeks, Jun 5, 2007 to Oct 23, 2007.

Lately

Last drought year: 2022, 14 weeks. 2016-2025: 1 in 10, against 0.6 in 10 for 2000-2015, about the same. So far in 2026: 19 of 44 weeks in drought, through Nov 3, 2026.

Further reading

Todd County lands on the plan covered in keeping a regular lawn. Its worst year, 2007, was one of the worst nationally too; see the worst years since 2000. How each of Todd County's 1,401 weeks was judged: how drought is counted.