Young County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Young County: 2.
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.

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. Jul 5, 2026Thunderstorm Wind$10.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Emergency management reported a collapsed prefabricated canvas hangar/outbuilding and 15 aircraft damaged at Olney Municipal Airport. Winds were estimated at 90-100 mph to cause the observed damage.

2. Oct 2, 1998Tornado$700,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An intermittent tornado tracked from northwest of Graham to southeast of Graham before ending on the Young-Jack county line just west of Bryson in Jack county. Sixty buildings were damaged, two mobile homes were destroyed and a radio tower was blown down.

3. Mar 4, 2004Tornado$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Several mobile homes were blown over in Lively Oaks, the upper section of a communications tower was blown over, and numerous trees and barns were destroyed south of Graham. The tornado track continued east northeast into Jack County before dissipating near Bryson.

4. Apr 30, 2000Tornado$300,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A large tornado was reported from near the county line (between Elbert and Padgett) to east of Olney. A 100 year old home was completely destroyed one mile south of the Olney Airport. A total of three homes and two motor homes were destroyed. Damage was reported to a nursing home, barns, power lines and trees. Most of the damage, however, occurred in open country.

5. Jun 20, 2011Hail$300,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Several sources reported quarter to golfball sized hail in Graham. The local newspaper reported hundreds of homes and vehicles were damaged by the hail.

6. Feb 1, 2011Heavy Snow, Young$200,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Five to seven inches of snow was reported across the county, on top of a small amount of sleet and freezing rain. Most of the vehicle incidents reported were due to stuck vehicles or vehicles that had slid off the roadway. The prolonged cold that settled in after the ice storm kept the roads treacherous for the next four days and many schools and businesses were closed for just as long.

7. Apr 17, 2010Flood$200,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Rainfall totals over 6 over the weekend resulted in Lake Graham overflowing its banks and flooding the nearby land. Also, flooding along the Brazos River backed up into area creeks and streams resulting in widespread flooding around the county. A high water rescue of three teenagers was performed on April 18th around 4 pm CDT when rising flood waters pushed their car off Power Plant Road in Graham. Another vehicle nearly got stuck in this same area. Rising waters also flooded Graham Bible Church where several inches of water was found inside the building, and the water in the parking lot was almost waist deep. Fireman's Park in Graham was under water. Several major roadways were…

8. Jul 13, 2000Thunderstorm Wind$200,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A straight line wind was estimated at 90 mph. The wind blew down a large building under construction; crushing a truck. A tree was blown onto a car and a small store was destroyed.

9. Dec 24, 2009Winter Storm, Young$150,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An average of 7-8 of snow fell across the county as reported by local law enforcement and COOP observers. Strong winds created near blizzard conditions across the county during the afternoon hours. The peak wind reported at the automated weather station in Graham (KRPH) was 39 mph. Snow drifts as high as 4 feet were reported in some locations. Several roads during the day became impassable because of the snow and icy roadways, but at night, the snow froze on the roadways, creating icy roads and treacherous travel conditions across the county through Christmas morning.

10. Apr 11, 2016Hail$100,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail approximately one mile west of Murray, TX.

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

113°F5 times, most recently Jul 21, 2022

All-time low

−11°FFeb 16, 2021

Warmest night

85°FJul 4, 1984

Coldest day

9°FFeb 16, 2021

Wettest day

9.60 inApr 26, 1957

Snowiest day

7.0 inFeb 6, 1961

Hottest year

1954mean 68.3°F

Coldest year

1989mean 61.8°F

Wettest year

201554.49 in

Driest year

195617.59 in

Station Jacksboro (USC00414517), 1,081 ft elevation, 26.5 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1941 to October 19, 2026; 89.9% 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.

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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 USC00414517.
• 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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