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Will It Rain on Your Fourth of July Parade?

We crunched the rainfall measurements for July 4 for every county in continental U.S. to calculate the historic odds of an Independence Day downpour.
Want a dry 4th of July? Stay out of Florida.David Montgomery/CityLab

Nothing puts the damper on watching fireworks soar into the sky than having rain coming right back down.

Only your local weather forecast can tell you whether it’s going to rain on your Fourth of July. But CityLab has crunched the numbers from the National Weather Service to figure out the odds that your community’s parades and fireworks have been menaced by rain.