U.S. Declares the Largest Natural Disaster Area Ever Due to Drought

July 16, 2012 at 9:06 PM

By Dashiell Bennett The Atlantic Wire

July 16, 2012 The blistering summer and ongoing drought conditions have the prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to declare a federal disaster area in more than 1,000 counties covering 26 states. That’s almost one-third of all the counties in the United States, making it the largest distaster declaration ever