The 54 counties whose burn bans will be lifted on October 1 are:
- Banks
- Barrow
- Bartow
- Bibb
- Butts
- Carroll
- Catoosa
- Chattooga
- Cherokee
- Clarke
- Clayton
- Cobb
- Columbia
- Coweta
- Crawford
- Dawson
- DeKalb
- Douglas
- Fayette
- Floyd
- Forsyth
- Fulton
- Gordon
- Gwinnett
- Hall
- Haralson
- Heard
- Henry
- Houston
- Jackson
- Jasper
- Jones
- Lamar
- Lumpkin
- Madison
- Meriwether
- Monroe
- Morgan
- Newton
- Oconee
- Paulding
- Peach
- Pickens
- Pike
- Polk
- Putnam
- Richmond
- Rockdale
- Spalding
- Troup
- Twiggs
- Upson
- Walker
- Walton