Stevens County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Stevens 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 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.

OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 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. Jun 4, 1999Tornado$750,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Large trees uprooted...at least 5 roofs heavily damaged...trailer blown off foundation...grain bin destroyed and power poles blown down. At least two folks witnessed the touched down...described as two swirling white funnels. Probably brief multiple suction vortices beneath the rotating updraft.

2. Sep 23, 2014Flash Flood$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Several county roads across northeast Stevens county were washed out by what was referred to as a Gully Washer.

3. Apr 6, 2001Tornado$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Tornado destroyed two pivot irrigation sprinklers and crossed into Grant county at 1647.

4. Jun 14, 1998Thunderstorm Wind$50,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Irrigation sprinkler blown over and damaged.

5. May 26, 1996Tornado$40,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Trees uprooted...minor damage to a home...several grain bins damaged and an implement overturned. Tornado continued into Seward county. In Seward county 3 irrigation sprinklers were destroyed...with hay bales tossed and a few trees uprooted.

6. Jun 4, 1999Thunderstorm Wind$40,000
7. Aug 1, 2006Thunderstorm Wind$20,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A two mile stretch of power poles were blown down along KS Hwy 25.

8. Apr 11, 2001High Wind, Stevens$10,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Power lines were blown down and windows broken.

9. Jul 3, 2005Thunderstorm Wind$8,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A large metal storage gararge was blown down.

10. Jul 3, 2000Thunderstorm Wind$1,500

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

116°FJun 25, 1911

All-time low

−22°FJan 7, 1912

Warmest night

87°FJul 8, 1909

Coldest day

−1°FFeb 3, 1905

Wettest day

4.52 inMay 25, 1976

Snowiest day

18.0 inDec 19, 1918

Hottest year

1953mean 59.7°F

Coldest year

1942mean 50.7°F

Wettest year

201734.92 in

Driest year

19567.49 in

Snowiest season

43.5 in1992-93

Station Hugoton (USC00143855), 3,110 ft elevation, 1.9 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1904 to March 27, 2026; 96.8% 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.

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).

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 USC00143855.
• 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.

Joins, thresholds and known limits are set out in the methodology. Found an error? Report it. Page built October 30, 2026.