I would say no. I'm in Atlanta, and after 40+ years of never worrying about humidity (36 years in the deep south), upon reading stuff on this website I suddenly became concerned. I ordered up humidifiers for my more expensive guitars, and within 3 weeks or so two of them had swelled enough that the action was adversely affected. By that time I had ordered a hygrometer and a realized that while my house would occasionally dip into the 30% range, it normally would stay in the 40-45% range even with the heat on, and higher when we don't need the heat (pretty often in Atlanta "winters").
Anybody need some humidifiers?
Anyway, like others have said, by a hygrometer before you start humidifying.
And yes, the two aforementioned guitars are back to normal now.
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