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All but two Georgia counties experiencing dry conditions
Posted on Oct 22, 2025 at 14:39 PM
Georgia’s farmers likely don’t need a data set to know that the weather has been dry in recent weeks, but the Oct. 16 U.S. Drought Monitor report confirmed as much, showing that 157 of the state’s 159 counties were at least abnormally dry in some portion of their county.
Only Towns and Chatham Counties showed no drought conditions.
The Drought Monitor rates drought on a six-level scale. By increasing severity, they are none, abnormally dry, moderate drought, severe drought, extreme drought and exceptional drought.
The Drought Monitor’s drought intensity map for the state showed 13 counties in Southwest Georgia in which some portion of the county had extreme drought: Baker, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Thomas, Tift and Worth.
Another 43 counties had abnormally dry conditions in some portion of their county, while 60 had moderate drought and 41 counties had severe drought conditions.
According to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s quantitative precipitation forecast from Oct. 22, no portion of the state is expected to get more than an inch of total rain through Oct. 29.
Longer term, NOAA’s seasonal temperature outlook released Oct. 16 indicated likely above-normal temperatures and likely below-normal precipitation for Georgia in December, January and February.
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