Lampasas County

Every recorded tornado

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

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 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.

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. May 22, 2007Flash Flood$300,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Flooding was reported along Highways 183 and 190 near the city. Water was as high as four feet on Highway 183. Evacuations were required near Mesquite Creek. Numerous low water crossings were barricaded. About twenty apartments and several homes were damaged by high water and deemed unihabitable. Many of the residents lost most of their possessions. In addition, the School Creek Bridge was washed away, with the road closed indefinitely.

2. Apr 29, 2016Flood$300,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Late newspaper reports indicated emergency personnel rescued nine people for high water after several residences were flooded by rain and heavy rain over the past few days. Approximately nine people were pulled from the flood waters. Water forced at least five additional persons to be displaced due to the flood.

3. Feb 14, 2021Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Lampasas$275,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Extreme cold gripped the county for several days. Overnight lows were near or below 20 degrees Fahrenheit almost all week. The period of February 15-16th was the coldest with low temperatures in the single digits to slightly below degrees Fahrenheit. The maximum temperature on the 15th was only in the teens. Wind chill values during the 14th-16th were between 0 to -15 degrees Fahrenheit most of the time. The cold temperatures resulted in an extreme amount of damage to pipes, infrastructure, and power.

4. Mar 20, 2010Thunderstorm Wind$175,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A building on Highway 190 E, east of Lampasas, was heavily damaged by high winds. The building suffered partial roof loss and partially collapsed walls. Seven units at a nearby storage facility were also damaged by 2x6 timbers and debris from the building. Timbers were also driven into a nearby double-wide mobile home, and a window was broken out at the residence. Some timbers were sticking up out of the ground around the residence. One 50-60' tall elm tree near the home was snapped in half and fell on a car. Only minor dents were sustained to the car. Also nearby, a fireworks stand was destroyed.

5. Aug 3, 2011Wildfire, Lampasas$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A 30-acre fire on CR 3830 in Adamsville burned several metal barns, two cars, and some farm equipment.

6. Jun 17, 2007Tornado$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Several modular homes were damaged as a brief tornado touched down off of FM 2657, on Sleepy Hollow Lane and Carroll Drive, just inside the Lampasas County line. Homes sustained roof and deck damage and a few were blown slightly off their foundations. Trees and fences were also torn down. One minor injury was reported when a woman was hit by flying debris. Eighteen residents were displaced. The tornado continued into Coryell County.

7. Aug 29, 2011Wildfire, Lampasas$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A 30-35 acre fire on CR 4765 in Kempner destroyed a vacant home and three other structures. The fire began when a buzzard on an electrical transformer caused the transformer to short out.

8. May 25, 2015Tornado$85,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A National Weather Service damage survey team found evidence of a tornado approximately four miles to the northwest of Kempner. This tornado occurred nearly simultaneously with a tornado near Lampasas. This tornado produced damage to several buildings, including two houses where large sections of roof damage.

9. May 14, 2008Thunderstorm Wind$75,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Trees were blown over and uprooted and roofs and fences were damaged.

10. Mar 20, 2010Thunderstorm Wind$75,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    A 60 foot tall oak tree was uprooted and crashed into a residence on 4th street in Lampasas. The house was significantly damaged. Also in Lampasas, the roof was blown off a portable building at the Lampasas Middle School.

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, 24.3 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.

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 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.

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