DENVER — Colorado is 98 percent drought-free according to a report released by the U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday.

Record rainfall and cooler temperatures in the early summer months have contributed to the report’s findings.

“Denver has seen more than 12 inches of rain,” FOX31 Pinpoint meteorologist Laura Velasquez said. “In a normal year, we’d be at eight inches.”

Velasquez also points out that this drought, which lasted for several years, did not end overnight.

“You need conditions to be consistently wetter and often times cooler so we can slowly break our way out of the drought,” she added.

The above-normal moisture the past few months has also kept it a quiet wildfire season.

“The last few years have been pretty slow in terms of acres burned in our fire season,” RMCC meteorologist Tim Mathewson said.

But we’re not out of the woods just yet.

“Even during our slowest year, we can still see some fire activity,” Mathewson said. “Even large fires, but in terms of severity, we’re not even close to where we were in 2012 and 2013.”

Drought-free also seems to be good news for the farming community, but too much rainfall did cause some problems early in the summer.

“I’ve farmed all my life, I’m 65 year’s old,” Alan Malzotti said. “I’ve never seen a summer like this. There was three weeks in May that you could not get in the field at all.”

It was a late start for the farmers who are hoping it will be a late finish as well.

“The farmer economically will be alright if we have a late season,” Malzotti said. “If we have an early freeze, we’re all in trouble. Consumer and the farmer.”

The U.S. Drought Monitor is released by the National Drought Mitigation Center.