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Drought in Zapata, Texas

Drought December 1, 2025 – December 22, 2025 · Zapata, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

Severe (D2) Drought would prevail across all but the northern quarter of Zapata County through December 22nd.

The wider storm

Modest rainfall, seasonably dry even for the typical dry season across the southern tip of Texas, persisted through December and maintained areas of Severe (D2) to Extreme (D3) Drought in Kenedy, Brooks, Jim Hogg, far northern Hidalgo, Starr, and Zapata County.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1308475. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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