The drought that has had its grip to one degree or another on Georgia for several months is history.
The U.S Drought Monitor (USDM) reports in its weekly update that every county in the state is now drought-free. As little as three months ago, only 40 percent of Georgia could make that claim.
As of now, virtually all of the Southeast is also drought-free with the hardest hit areas in the country west of the Mississippi: