# Counties in North Carolina by annual precipitation, 2025

All 100 values come from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `precipitation_annual`
- Unit: inches
- Definition: 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.
- Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/noaa-ncei
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/annual-precipitation/north-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | inches |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Cherokee County | 57.1 |
| 2 | Clay County | 53.95 |
| 3 | Dare County | 53.2 |
| 4 | Graham County | 53.07 |
| 5 | Swain County | 53.05 |
| 6 | Transylvania County | 52.88 |
| 7 | Jackson County | 51.23 |
| 8 | Carteret County | 49.9 |
| 9 | Hyde County | 49.74 |
| 10 | Columbus County | 49.57 |
| 11 | Macon County | 49.41 |
| 12 | Alamance County | 49.12 |
| 13 | Orange County | 48.51 |
| 14 | Pamlico County | 48.49 |
| 15 | Brunswick County | 48.38 |
| 16 | Jones County | 48.28 |
| 17 | Craven County | 48.2 |
| 18 | Onslow County | 48.19 |
| 19 | McDowell County | 47.7 |
| 20 | Haywood County | 47.22 |
| 21 | Watauga County | 46.83 |
| 22 | Vance County | 46.59 |
| 23 | Tyrrell County | 46.58 |
| 24 | Duplin County | 46.5 |
| 25 | Moore County | 46.47 |
| 25 | Pender County | 46.47 |
| 27 | Lenoir County | 46.38 |
| 28 | Pitt County | 46.31 |
| 29 | Gates County | 46.26 |
| 30 | Beaufort County | 46.13 |
| 31 | Henderson County | 46.01 |
| 32 | Chatham County | 45.92 |
| 33 | Warren County | 45.84 |
| 34 | Avery County | 45.83 |
| 35 | Johnston County | 45.7 |
| 36 | Durham County | 45.66 |
| 36 | Guilford County | 45.66 |
| 38 | Granville County | 45.55 |
| 39 | New Hanover County | 45.52 |
| 40 | Northampton County | 45.46 |
| 41 | Montgomery County | 45.45 |
| 42 | Bladen County | 45.24 |
| 43 | Caldwell County | 45.09 |
| 44 | Martin County | 45.07 |
| 45 | Lee County | 45.03 |
| 46 | Franklin County | 44.96 |
| 46 | Halifax County | 44.96 |
| 48 | Hertford County | 44.94 |
| 49 | Bertie County | 44.92 |
| 49 | Camden County | 44.92 |
| 51 | Wake County | 44.88 |
| 52 | Greene County | 44.81 |
| 52 | Yancey County | 44.81 |
| 54 | Wayne County | 44.74 |
| 55 | Currituck County | 44.57 |
| 56 | Pasquotank County | 44.51 |
| 57 | Person County | 44.3 |
| 58 | Perquimans County | 44.27 |
| 59 | Sampson County | 44.17 |
| 60 | Surry County | 44.08 |
| 61 | Chowan County | 44.07 |
| 62 | Mitchell County | 44.01 |
| 63 | Washington County | 43.86 |
| 64 | Polk County | 43.62 |
| 65 | Richmond County | 43.38 |
| 66 | Burke County | 43.35 |
| 67 | Harnett County | 43.26 |
| 68 | Edgecombe County | 42.8 |
| 69 | Ashe County | 42.78 |
| 69 | Wilkes County | 42.78 |
| 71 | Alleghany County | 42.59 |
| 72 | Caswell County | 42.43 |
| 73 | Buncombe County | 42.27 |
| 74 | Madison County | 42.02 |
| 75 | Alexander County | 41.88 |
| 76 | Stokes County | 41.68 |
| 77 | Randolph County | 41.49 |
| 78 | Yadkin County | 41.45 |
| 79 | Stanly County | 41.36 |
| 80 | Wilson County | 41.23 |
| 81 | Catawba County | 41.2 |
| 81 | Nash County | 41.2 |
| 81 | Rutherford County | 41.2 |
| 84 | Forsyth County | 40.85 |
| 85 | Rockingham County | 40.46 |
| 86 | Cumberland County | 40.4 |
| 87 | Robeson County | 40.2 |
| 88 | Cleveland County | 39.95 |
| 89 | Gaston County | 39.71 |
| 90 | Hoke County | 39.35 |
| 91 | Iredell County | 39.23 |
| 92 | Lincoln County | 39.19 |
| 93 | Anson County | 38.59 |
| 94 | Cabarrus County | 38.45 |
| 95 | Davie County | 37.94 |
| 96 | Mecklenburg County | 37.92 |
| 97 | Scotland County | 37.87 |
| 98 | Davidson County | 37.53 |
| 99 | Rowan County | 36.46 |
| 100 | Union County | 33.45 |