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Drought in Georgia

1 federal drought disaster declarations in Georgia since 1953.

Drought — Georgia — federal disaster declarations per year

19771977

Counties most affected

Appling County1 Atkinson County1 Bacon County1 Baker County1 Baldwin County1 Banks County1 Barrow County1 Bartow County1 Ben Hill County1 Berrien County1 Bibb County1 Bleckley County1 Brantley County1 Brooks County1 Bryan County1 Bulloch County1 Burke County1 Butts County1 Camden County1 Candler County1 Carroll County1 Catoosa County1 Charlton County1 Chatham County1 Chattahoochee County1 Chattooga County1 Cherokee County1 Clarke County1 Clayton County1 Clinch County1 Cobb County1 Coffee County1 Colquitt County1 Columbia County1 Cook County1 Coweta County1 Crawford County1 Crisp County1 Dade County1 Dawson County1 Decatur County1 DeKalb County1 Dodge County1 Dooly County1 Douglas County1 Early County1 Echols County1 Effingham County1 Elbert County1 Emanuel County1 Fayette County1 Floyd County1 Forsyth County1 Franklin County1 Fulton County1 Glascock County1 Glynn County1 Gordon County1 Grady County1 Greene County1 Gwinnett County1 Habersham County1 Hall County1 Hancock County1 Haralson County1 Harris County1 Hart County1 Heard County1 Henry County1 Houston County1 Irwin County1 Jackson County1 Jasper County1 Jeff Davis County1 Jefferson County1 Jenkins County1 Johnson County1 Jones County1 Lamar County1 Lanier County1 Laurens County1 Lee County1 Liberty County1 Lincoln County1 Long County1 Lowndes County1 Lumpkin County1 Macon County1 Madison County1 Marion County1 McDuffie County1 McIntosh County1 Meriwether County1 Miller County1 Mitchell County1 Monroe County1 Montgomery County1 Morgan County1 Murray County1 Newton County1 Oconee County1 Oglethorpe County1 Paulding County1 Peach County1 Pickens County1 Pierce County1 Pike County1 Polk County1 Pulaski County1 Putnam County1 Richmond County1 Rockdale County1 Schley County1 Screven County1 Seminole County1 Spalding County1 Stephens County1 Stewart County1 Sumter County1 Talbot County1 Taliaferro County1 Tattnall County1 Taylor County1 Telfair County1 Thomas County1 Tift County1 Toombs County1 Treutlen County1 Troup County1 Twiggs County1 Upson County1 Walker County1 Walton County1 Ware County1 Warren County1 Washington County1 Wayne County1 Webster County1 Wheeler County1 White County1 Whitfield County1 Wilcox County1 Wilkes County1 Wilkinson County1

Declarations

July 20, 1977Drought144 counties

Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries. History is not a forecast.

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