Burnet County

Every recorded tornado

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

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.

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.

Costliest events since 1996

1. Jun 26, 2007Flash Flood$137 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Two lines of thunderstorms, one moving south from the Dallas area and one moving southeast from the Abilene area, intersected and stalled near Marble Falls, producing a sustained heavy rainfall over Burnet County from just before midnight into the early and mid morning hours. General rainfall over the southern half of Burnet County was between 10 and 15 inches with the highest rain totals in the Marble Falls area, where up to 19 inches fell. The hardest hit area was Marble Falls, where more than 315 homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. The worst of the damage occurred along Whitman Branch Creek. This included businesses and even a day care facility. Personnel from Texas…

2. Oct 16, 2018Flood$30.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Heavy rain mainly west of Burnet County and lakes LBJ and Marble Falls, caused rapid rises on the Colorado River. Several hundred thousand CFS of flood water entered Lake LBJ near Kingsland (where the Llano River enters the lake), with flood waters flowing down the Colorado River into Lake Marble Falls. Lake LBJ and Marble Falls rose rapidly, flooding homes and some businesses. While the lake only rose a few feet at Wirtz Dam, farther upstream on Lake LBJ near Kingsland, Granite Shoals, Highland Haven, and Cottonwood shores, rapid rises on the Lake caused many homes to flood. Lake LBJ started to rise in the predawn hours and continued high through the day. Downstream of Wirtz dam…

3. Apr 9, 2024Hail$10.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail in Marble Falls.

4. Jul 5, 2025Flash Flood$6.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Slow-moving thunderstorms brought heavy rain for several hours to Burnet on the morning of July 5. Burnet Municipal Airport reported 8.67 inches of rain. An LCRA gauge in Burnet reported 11.67 inches. The torrential rainfall caused the rapid rise of Hamilton Creek. Additional inundation also occurred along Daugherty Branch and Haynie Branch in Burnet. Homes, businesses, and other buildings along Hamilton Creek experienced up to 7 ft of inundation. Oak St. in the northwestern part of the city was especially hard hit by the swollen Hamilton Creek. Around a dozen homes along the road were damaged, primarily near 7th and 8th Street. One house was torn off its foundation and was…

5. Jun 11, 2009Thunderstorm Wind$5.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   A peak wind of 58 kts was measured by the Burnet Airport ASOS. A NWS storm damage survey found several planes broken loose from their ties at the airport and either flipped over or skidded along the tarmac several hundred yards. Across the street from the airport one camper trailer was destroyed and several others were damaged. Several people sustained minor injuries. Across the rest of the town of Burnet, several trees were uprooted, large limbs were blown down, and a few businesses had roof damage. Across portions of the city, winds were estimated at 60 to 70 mph.

6. Jun 11, 2009Thunderstorm Wind$5.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Widespread damage occurred in the town of Bertram as a large thunderstorm moved east through the town. Numerous large mature trees were uprooted in town as well as several buildings sustained roof damage. The damage survey estimates winds of 70 to 80 mph hit the town.

7. Jun 22, 1997Flash Flood$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The heavy rain Friday night into Saturday afternoon had left South Central Texas soils saturated. The situation worsened Saturday evening into Sunday as heavy rain associated with the upper low pressure system redeveloped over the western Texas Hill Country. Very heavy rains over the Texas Hill Country Saturday night and Sunday morning caused widespread flooding as well as flash flooding across numerous counties. The heavy rains moved into San Antonio Sunday morning and into the Austin area later in the morning. By Sunday afternoon and evening, areas of showers and thunderstorms had diminished over South Central Texas as the upper low moved into North Texas. Late Sunday evening,…

8. Feb 1, 2023Winter Storm, Burnet$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Freezing rain began around 11 AM on January 30 and continued off and on through February 2. By 10 AM on the 1st 0.05��� of ice had accumulated in Granite Shoals. By the end of the event 0.53��� of ice was measured by the ASOS at Burnet Municipal Airport/Kate Craddock Field in Burnet. There was damage to the electric infrastructure which was estimated at $1 million. The Pedernales Electric Cooperative, headquarters in Johnson City, provides electricity to most of Blanco and Burnet Counties and parts of Edwards, Real, Kerr, Williamson, Travis, Hays, Comal, and Kendall Counties, reported $13 million in damage. This damage is likely included in the damage estimates…

9. Mar 12, 1999Hail$700,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Heavy rain was reported in Marble Falls, followed by large hail just in advance of a small and short-lived tornado. The tornado was observed by an Amateur Radio spotter just east of the town of Marble Falls itself. After the tornado had dissipated, a second severe thunderstorm moved across the Marble Falls area, producing grapefruit-sized hail. The hail damaged over 300 homes and more than 500 cars. Damage totals were estimated to be near $700,000.

10. Sep 23, 2006Thunderstorm Wind$200,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Severe thunderstorms struck the area between Marble Falls and Spicewood, knocking over trees, phone lines, and power lines. The winds, estimated near 65 knots, also damaged roofs in both Marble Falls and in Spicewood.

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

114°F2 times, most recently Jul 11, 1917

All-time low

−4°F2 times, most recently Dec 23, 1989

Warmest night

86°FAug 1, 1902

Coldest day

16°FDec 23, 1990

Wettest day

13.15 inJul 5, 2025

Snowiest day

9.0 inJan 30, 1949

Hottest year

1933mean 71.2°F

Coldest year

1976mean 62.0°F

Wettest year

191956.59 in

Driest year

195413.00 in

Snowiest season

9.3 in1929-30

Station Burnet (USC00411250), 1,285 ft elevation, 6.0 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1896 to October 23, 2026; 90.8% 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.

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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 USC00411250.
• 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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