BOOTHBAY REGISTER • October 3, 2025
The ongoing drought of 2025 has deepened across Maine with approximately 319 known residential wells across the state reported to have gone dry. Compare that to a month ago, when a total of 21 dry private wells had been reported. Last week's heavy rain offered a brief respite, but not enough to quench the ground's thirst. To the National Weather Service, as little as six inches above normal rainfall could be sufficient for some locations to end the drought, but the hardest hit areas: "may need as much as 12 inches of rainfall spread out over months to see full recovery. Much of drought-stricken Maine needs 150% of normal precipitation over the next few months to ameliorate drought conditions before the ground freezes."