Jasper County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Jasper County: 1.
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 storm within 100 miles

1. Tropical storms and hurricanes (34 kt or more, still tropical) at closest approach. Post-tropical remnants with gale-force winds are listed but not counted. Direct: track within 50 miles; near: within 100 miles. Distance is measured to the county boundary for counties and to the city centre for cities, using positions interpolated hourly between HURDAT2 fixes.

National Hurricane Center HURDAT2, 1851 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.

Claims by ZIP code

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

River crests

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.

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 county boundary (or inside the county).
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. Sep 7, 2004High Wind, Jasper$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   High wind damage, associated with Tropical Storm Frances, is listed below, in alphabetical order by county for those counties that "high wind" criteria was either met or assumed to be met.Baldwin: The Georgia Emergency Management Agency reported that extensive and widespread wind damage was observed. Many trees and power lines were down throughout the county and many parts of the county were expected to be without power for up to four days as a result. In addition, four homes suffered major damage and five suffered minor damage. One man was injured and taken to a local hospital when a tree fell on his mobile home. Four to five inches of rain was also reported throughout the…

2. Feb 18, 2009Tornado$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An aerial and ground survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia in cooperation with the Jasper county Emergency Management Director confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down in far eastern Jasper county, approximately one mile west of Smithboro. The tornado continued on a 3-mile long eastward path parallel to and just south of Georgia Highway 16, lifting just before reaching the Putnam county line. This was one of two EF1 tornadoes to touch down in Jasper county on this date. The same thunderstorm that spawned this tornado continued on to produce yet another EF1 tornado near Eatonton and later an EF3 tornado in Hancock county.…

3. Jan 28, 2005Winter Storm, Jasper$150,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A significant and fairly prolonged winter storm/ice storm affected nearly all of North and Central Georgia from the evening of Friday January 28th to late morning on Sunday January 30th. The winter storm was a result of a very strong and very cold Arctic surface high pressure system located across the Mid-Atlantic states and an upper-level disturbance moving across the region from the west. North of a line from La Grange, to Thomaston, to Sandersville, the precipitation fell mostly as a mixture of sleet and freezing rain, with typical accumulations of one-half inch glaze ice and one to two inches of sleet. Some areas in North Central and Northeast Georgia experienced significant…

4. Feb 18, 2009Tornado$125,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City confirmed that yet a second EF1 tornado touched down in Jasper county, just a little less than an hour before the first one. This tornado tracked across northern Jasper county, touching down approximately nine miles west-northwest of Shady Dale and ending about two miles northwest of Shady Dale. The tornado was estimated to have a maximum path width of 1/4 mile with estimated winds of 100 mph. Damage began along Shepard Road in northwest Jasper county and continued to near Tucker Town Road, two miles northwest of Shady Dale. Major damage was observed to a small cottage in the northeast part…

5. Mar 15, 2008Hail$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The public observed tennis ball-sized hail along in far southern Jasper county in the Hillsboro area, near the Jones county line. An amateur radio operator observed quarter-sized hail in far southern Jasper county in the Hillsboro area.

6. Jul 6, 2008Lightning$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Jasper County 911 Center reported that lightning struck a home on Georgia Highway 142 and set it on fire.

7. Sep 11, 2017Tropical Storm, Jasper$75,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Local news media reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the county. A wind gust of 33 mph was measured near Adgateville. Radar estimated between 2 and 4 inches of rain feel across the county with 2.89 inches measured near Adgateville. No injuries were reported.

8. Mar 15, 2008Hail$65,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The public observed golf ball-sized hail north of Monticello. Radar supports that this storm moved from roughly four miles north of Monticello to near Shady Dale.

9. Jan 28, 2000Ice Storm, Jasper$33,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A series of short waves in the upper air pattern produced periods of mostly light to occasionally moderate precipitation over the north half of Georgia from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon. Patchy light snow began in west central and northwest Georgia around daybreak on the 28th. There was a light dusting on the ground by mid morning from Troup to Carroll county, east to Fayette county. Due to the dry layer of air aloft, much of the precipitation evaporated before reaching the ground, so eastward progression of the area of snow was slow. By evening, a mixture of light snow, sleet and freezing rain became more widespread over west central and northwest Georgia. Although the…

10. Jul 9, 2010Thunderstorm Wind$30,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    The Jasper County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were down across the southwest part of the county. One power pole was broken in half as well. One tree fell on a vehicle. Most of the damage was along Partridge Drive, Cook Road, and Pine Tree Road.

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

109°FJul 12, 1930

All-time low

−7°FJan 21, 1985

Warmest night

86°FJul 7, 1990

Coldest day

16°FDec 26, 1983

Wettest day

8.20 inMar 5, 2025

Snowiest day

15.0 inFeb 10, 1973

Hottest year

1990mean 66.8°F

Coldest year

2010mean 59.9°F

Wettest year

202494.29 in

Driest year

195426.45 in

Station Monticello (USC00095988), 518 ft elevation, 2.4 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1891 to June 30, 2026; 85.0% 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.

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

Neighbouring counties

• 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 USC00095988.
• 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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