Drought in Coffee, Tennessee

Extreme drought conditions from November 2023 continued across Coffee County in December.

As abnormally dry conditions continued across Middle Tennessee, drought conditions worsened across the area. By the end of December, severe drought conditions expanded to about 85 percent of the area with about 64 percent of that in the extreme drought category. Extreme drought conditions expanded across southern Middle Tennessee as well as the Cumberland Plateau. Slight drought improvements noted in November across the northwest worsened once again where rainfall deficits only increased. At the end of 2023, Nashville's yearly rainfall total was 11.45 inches below normal. Clarksville's yearly rainfall total was 4.85 inches below normal while Crossville was 7.36 inches below the yearly normal.