Cimarron County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Cimarron County: 0.
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.

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. Dec 29, 2006Blizzard, Cimarron$4.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Oklahoma Mesonet three miles south southeast of Boise City reported visibilities less than or equal to one quarter of a mile...sustained wind gusts in excess of thirty-five miles an hour...and heavy snow. Numerous cattle were lost in the storm.

2. Mar 26, 2009Blizzard, Cimarron$450,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A trained spotter in Felt Oklahoma reported between eighteen and twenty-four inches of snow along with eight to ten foot snow drifts...visibilities of less than one quarter of a mile...and winds of thirty to forty knots with gusts to fifty-two knots.

3. Jul 10, 2025Thunderstorm Wind$150,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Downburst winds occurred near and three miles north of Felt. Windows were blown out of two cars in Felt. The roofs of a feed lot three miles north of Felt and at surrounding houses were torn but not completely ripped off. Six power poles were knocked down and some were completely snapped. Small trees were snapped in two and large trees had branches snapped off. A few irrigation pivots were knocked over and broken. A stop sign was uprooted and tossed 300 feet north-northeast of its original location. All of this damage supports a downburst with winds likely over 80mph.

4. Jun 19, 2008Hail$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Boise City News reported that the siding of one home in Kenton had major damage while other homes in Kenton had the windows and siding on the east side of the homes badly damaged. On the west side of Kenton...several homes sustained severe hail damage.

5. May 25, 1996Tornado$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A tornado on the east side of Felt took the roof off a mobile home, broke some power poles and took out a few trees. Damage was estimated at near $100,000 and the tornado track is an estimate.

6. Jul 13, 2023Thunderstorm Wind$62,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Report from emergency manager of an unknown number of downed power lines on EW 21 RD between NS 30 and NS 36 RD.

7. May 20, 2001Thunderstorm Wind$60,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Severe thunderstorms containing hail and damaging winds raked the western and central Oklahoma panhandle during the late evening hours.

8. Jun 25, 2000Thunderstorm Wind$50,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Law enforcement officials reported considerable damage to a couple of mobile homes...one house lost the back porch...and a shop was destroyed.

9. May 15, 2003Tornado$45,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The tornado remained over open country. No injuries were reported.

10. Jun 19, 2020Thunderstorm Wind$30,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    A double wide manufactured home was rolled over near Kenton.

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

110°FJul 31, 1987

All-time low

−26°F2 times, most recently Feb 3, 1996

Warmest night

77°FAug 2, 2011

Coldest day

−3°FDec 23, 1990

Wettest day

4.05 inOct 17, 1965

Snowiest day

19.3 inNov 17, 2015

Hottest year

1986mean 59.1°F

Coldest year

1993mean 52.4°F

Wettest year

199826.31 in

Driest year

19565.30 in

Snowiest season

71.0 in2006-07

Station Campo 7 S (USC00051268), 4,105 ft elevation, 19.3 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1970 to October 27, 2026; 96.9% 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 USC00051268.
• 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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