Guymon

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond this area.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every large fire

1. Large fires mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program since 1984: 1,000 acres or more in the West, 500 or more in the East. Prescribed burns are excluded. Acres here are the part of each perimeter inside this place.

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), 1984 to 2026.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Flood insurance figures are for Texas County, the county that contains Guymon.

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

River crests

River gauges in Texas County, the county that contains Guymon.

The National Weather Service sets flood stages for 1 gauge here but lists no crests for it.

River gauges

1. Crests are the highest and the recent crests the National Weather Service lists for each river gauge in the county that has a flood stage, not every flood. Flood categories use each gauge's current flood stages; crests from before levees, dams or channel changes may not be comparable. Crests measured on an old datum are left out of the rankings.

NOAA National Water Prediction Service gauge records, retrieved October 30, 2026.

The drought index is for Texas County, the county that contains Guymon.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

Every earthquake of magnitude 4 or more within 50 miles

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the city centre.
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Dec 28, 2006Winter Storm, Texas$7.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Four inches of snow was measured in Texhoma along with one quarter inch of freezing rain.

2. Apr 3, 2011Wildfire, Texas$3.5 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   A large wildfire began six miles southwest of Guymon Oklahoma in Texas County around 1500 CST. The wildfire consumed a measured five hundred and one acres, destroyed three homes, three to four businesses and also numerous outbuildings. There were twelve people injured, including four to five firefighters. The firefighters sustained eye injuries. Also, more than five hundred homes had to be evacuated and the wildfire knocked out power to more than one thousand and five hundred customers. U.S. Highway 54 was closed southwest of Guymon for more than six hours. The Elks Addition, Sunset Area, and the Prairie Village Trailer Park and the Corral RV Park were evacuated. Guymon city…

3. Oct 25, 1997Blizzard, Texas$1.5 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   A very strong winter weather storm and blizzard moved across the central plains states through the day Saturday. The 74 year old female from Adams Oklahoma was returning home when her car became stuck in a snowdrift less than a mile from her home. She apparently died from hypothermia after trying to walk through the blizzard from her stranded car to her nearby home. She was found about noon the next day under about eighteen inches of snow in a milo field southeast of Hooker. Reports from the Oklahoma Mesonet sites in both Cimarron and Texas counties indicated wind gusts of 58 to 66 mph from 0830 CST to 1700 CST. Total snowfall accumulations across the Oklahoma Panhandle Saturday…

4. Jun 21, 2006Tornado$700,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An official storm damage survey was made by the Texas County Emergency Manager. One hog barn was severely damaged and three homes sustained significant roof damage. Also...two barns and a pickup with a trailor hitched to the pickup were damaged.

5. Feb 24, 2013Blizzard, Texas$620,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Blizzard conditions observed at the Guymon ASOS, a total of 5 inches of snow, and a max wind gusts of 49 mph.

6. Feb 17, 2026Wildfire, Texas$600,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Side Road Fire ignited on the afternoon of February 17, 2026, in Texas County, Oklahoma as a result of dry fuels, low humidity and wind gusts exceeding 60mph. The fire started near U.S. Highway 54, approximately 5 miles west of Tyrone and north of Guymon. This fire started as the result of a seven car accident that occurred on as a result of poor visibility from smoke from the nearby Stevens Fire. The Side Road fire burned 3680 acres. Mandatory evacuations were issued for the community of Tyrone and surrounding areas on February 17th and were lifted on February 21st, and US Highway 54 was closed between Hooker and Tyrone during the height of the fire due to smoke and emergency…

7. May 20, 2001Thunderstorm Wind$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An old granary was picked up and dropped on drills...a garage was moved off its foundation...and a windmill was twisted beyond repair. The high winds also destroyed two grain bins blowing debris through other out buildings and twisting and folding the pipe TV antenna pole. The winds also broke more than eighteen of Tri-County Electic Cooperative's distribution poles. Some wheat and corn fields were leveled by tons of tiny wind-driven hail.

8. Jun 4, 1999Thunderstorm Wind$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Report of roofs blown off homes between Eva and Hough.

9. Dec 19, 2006Ice Storm, Texas$400,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An estimated one half inch of ice accumulation from freezing rain caused tree limbs of one and one and a half to two inches in diameter to come down in Texhoma.

10. May 20, 2001Thunderstorm Wind$350,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Five to seven tractor trailers reported blown over.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

112°FJun 27, 2011

All-time low

−22°FJan 4, 1959

Warmest night

83°F3 times, most recently Jul 23, 2001

Coldest day

1°FDec 22, 1983

Wettest day

5.38 inJun 8, 1942

Snowiest day

16.0 inJan 19, 1990

Hottest year

2024mean 61.2°F

Coldest year

1988mean 52.3°F

Wettest year

201529.04 in

Driest year

20117.80 in

Snowiest season

59.5 in1987-88

Station Goodwell Rsch Station (USC00343628), 3,278 ft elevation, 10.4 miles from the city centre. Daily records from 1910 to August 31, 2026; 93.8% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

Declarations for Texas County.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USC00343628.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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