Counties in Mississippi by annual precipitation

Amite County had the highest annual precipitation of 82 counties in 2016, at 71.28 inches. Kemper County had the lowest, at 39.96 inches. The median was 52.43 inches and the figure for Mississippi was 53.13 inches. Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.

Highest71.28Amite County

Lowest39.96Kemper County

Median52.4382 counties

Mississippi53.13History

Map of counties, 2016

Under 46
46 to 47
47 to 52
52 to 55
55 to 60
60 and over

inches, 2016. Source: NOAA NCEI, NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

Top 40 counties, 2016

inches. Source: NOAA NCEI, NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	2016 inches	Change on 2015
1	Amite County	71.28	-1%
2	Harrison County	70.37	-3.6%
3	Walthall County	70.06	+10.9%
4	Pike County	69.84	+7.1%
5	Wilkinson County	68.32	+0.7%
6	Hancock County	68.3	+0.5%
7	Stone County	66.52	-10.2%
8	Pearl River County	66.42	-5.1%
9	Franklin County	66.31	+6.9%
10	Jackson County	64.91	-12.3%
11	Perry County	63.52	-5.7%
12	Forrest County	62.99	-4.2%
13	Marion County	60.39	+0.6%
14	DeSoto County	59.98	+4.4%
15	Lamar County	59.93	-6%
16	Lincoln County	59.83	-1.6%
17	George County	59.24	-16.1%
18	Jefferson County	58.34	+0.6%
19	Bolivar County	58.12	-5.6%
20	Rankin County	58.01	-0.1%
21	Washington County	57.2	-8%
22	Jones County	57.09	-6.7%
23	Warren County	56.44	-8.8%
24	Sunflower County	56.1	-4.8%
25	Tate County	55.93	-4.7%
26	Greene County	55.55	-13.9%
27	Adams County	55.11	-4.5%
28	Scott County	55.04	-6%
29	Claiborne County	54.93	-6.7%
30	Jefferson Davis County	54.64	-6.3%
31	Simpson County	54.63	-2.5%
32	Issaquena County	54.51	-9.8%
33	Hinds County	54.34	-8.8%
34	Wayne County	54.26	-13.7%
35	Copiah County	53.83	-11.7%
36	Smith County	53.64	-5.1%
37	Tunica County	53.34	-5%
38	Lawrence County	52.93	-9.2%
39	Covington County	52.92	-10.8%
40	Quitman County	52.7	-9.8%
41	Jasper County	52.61	-11%
42	Coahoma County	52.24	-7.1%
43	Leflore County	51.63	-7.6%
44	Tallahatchie County	51.49	-11.4%
45	Leake County	50.81	-11.4%
46	Marshall County	50.71	-12.9%
47	Madison County	50.63	-8.2%
48	Panola County	50.37	-14.5%
49	Newton County	49.7	-18.4%
50	Sharkey County	48.64	-17.6%
51	Yazoo County	48.62	-12.6%
52	Neshoba County	47.84	-15.7%
53	Lafayette County	47.22	-26.3%
54	Yalobusha County	47.19	-20.5%
55	Humphreys County	47.14	-19.1%
56	Clay County	47.1	-16.3%
57	Prentiss County	47.06	-23.7%
58	Alcorn County	47.02	-23.1%
59	Tishomingo County	46.99	-25.1%
60	Grenada County	46.97	-13.7%
61	Oktibbeha County	46.7	-15.9%
62	Carroll County	46.63	-17%
63	Holmes County	46.54	-18.2%
63	Tippah County	46.54	-22.2%
65	Benton County	46.19	-20.2%
66	Attala County	46.12	-21.2%
67	Webster County	46.03	-22.1%
68	Itawamba County	45.84	-30.1%
69	Clarke County	45.77	-23.7%
70	Choctaw County	45.63	-17.7%
71	Calhoun County	45.35	-25.5%
71	Union County	45.35	-27.9%
73	Winston County	45.2	-13.5%
74	Montgomery County	45.14	-20.9%
75	Lowndes County	44.79	-18.5%
76	Monroe County	44.65	-24.2%
77	Pontotoc County	43.43	-34.2%
78	Chickasaw County	43.39	-29.7%
79	Lee County	43.34	-33.8%
80	Lauderdale County	41.68	-30.7%
81	Noxubee County	41.26	-21.4%
82	Kemper County	39.96	-29.9%

Other periods

About this ranking

Total precipitation from January to December, in inches: rain plus the water content of snow and other frozen precipitation. NOAA computes it from its climate divisional dataset (nClimDiv): station readings interpolated onto a 5 km grid and averaged over the area.

Values are area averages, not the reading at one weather station. NOAA revises the last two years every month.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance. NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties. From the NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Divisional Database (nClimDiv), doi:10.7289/V5M32STR. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. (2026). NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties (Counties in Mississippi by annual precipitation, 2016) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping

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NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties, Counties in Mississippi by annual precipitation, 2016. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 6 Oct. 2026, https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/annual-precipitation/mississippi-counties?period=2016. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. 2026. NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties. Counties in Mississippi by annual precipitation, 2016. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/annual-precipitation/mississippi-counties?period=2016.

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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (2026) NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties, Counties in Mississippi by annual precipitation, 2016 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/annual-precipitation/mississippi-counties?period=2016 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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@misc{noaa_counties_in_mississippi_by_2016,
  author = {{NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information}},
  title = {{NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties: Counties in Mississippi by annual precipitation, 2016}},
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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/annual-precipitation/mississippi-counties?period=2016. Publisher attribution: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance. NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties. From the NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Divisional Database (nClimDiv), doi:10.7289/V5M32STR. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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