Duval County

Every recorded tornado

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

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Mar 31, 2013Hail$5.3 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   NWS storm survey concluded that baseball to softball sized hail fell across Benavides causing damage to nearly every home and business in the town. Damage included broken windows, doors, roofs, and siding. The damage was confined primarily to the north and east side of structures. Vehicles were severely dented with large holes in windshields or completely broken out. One person suffered a head injury. The severe hail damaged 258 residences, 100 abandoned homes, and 700 cars.

2. Mar 31, 2013Hail$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   NWS storm survey combined with Freer Fire Chief reports indicated that golf ball to baseball sized hail fell in the northeast portions of the city of Freer. The hail caused dents in vehicles including a new and used car lot. The baseball sized hail broke out windows in north facing buildings. Hail broke windshields out of the fire truck.

3. Oct 27, 2005Thunderstorm Wind$150,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An NWS storm survey concluded straight line winds severely damaged roughly 15 homes, a community center and church. Nearly all the damage was observed on the northwest sides of the structres with debris scattered to the southeast. Two mobile home were completely destoyed, with one man injured that was inside one of the mobile homes. The two mobile homes that were completly destroyed were oriented north-northeast to south-southwest, perpendicular to the northwest to southeast straight-line winds observed on radar. The damage from the two mobile homes was thrown to the southeast roughly 20 yards. In addition numerous large trees and power poles were uprooted and broken, all lying to…

4. May 15, 2008Thunderstorm Wind$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Numerous large tree limbs were snapped and a few trees completely uprooted. Several power poles were blown down. At a high school, stadium lights were damaged and a dugout roof was ripped off at the baseball field. The high school roof auditorium was also damaged. Part of a gymnasium roof was also torn off. A NWS storm survey of the damage in Benavides revealed a divergent, downburst wind pattern about 1 mile wide and 3 miles long on the southwest side of the town, near Highway 359 and 339. Damage was mainly to trees, metal roofs and weaker, west facing structures.

5. Aug 16, 2022Flash Flood$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Very heavy rainfall fell over Macho Creek in western Duval County with radar estimates showing 8 to 15 inches of rainfall. Flood waters rose on Macho Creek and moved into the community of Realitos. Two homes on south Cadena Street between Highway 359 and Adkins Street had water up to the window sills. Around 20 people were evacuated, with some of them going to a shelter in Benavides. Multiple agencies responded to the rescue effort.

6. Aug 16, 2022Flood$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Very heavy rainfall fell over Macho Creek in western Duval County with radar estimates showing 8 to 15 inches of rainfall. Flood waters rose on Macho Creek and moved into the community of Realitos. Two homes on south Cadena Street between Highway 359 and Adkins Street had water up to the window sills. Around 20 people were evacuated, with some of them going to a shelter in Benavides. Multiple agencies responded to the rescue effort.

7. Mar 18, 2016Thunderstorm Wind$50,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Large healthy tree was uprooted along with other trees blown down. Roof damage occurred to a home.

8. May 3, 2019Thunderstorm Wind$50,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Damaging winds were estimated to around 70 MPH in Benavides. Trees were blown down in the city.

9. May 3, 2019Thunderstorm Wind$50,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Texas Department of Public Safety reported trees were blown down in Benavides.

10. Mar 18, 2016Hail$50,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Quarter sized hail occurred in Benavides.

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 5, 2009

All-time low

15°FFeb 3, 1951

Warmest night

84°F2 times, most recently Jul 31, 2009

Coldest day

25°FJan 30, 1951

Wettest day

13.21 inSep 13, 1951

Hottest year

2009mean 75.6°F

Coldest year

2010mean 71.8°F

Wettest year

201544.03 in

Driest year

202310.80 in

Station Alice International Airport (USW00012932), 170 ft elevation, 22.4 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1948 to October 26, 2026; 85.1% 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 USW00012932.
• 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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