Lincoln County

Every recorded tornado

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

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.

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.

Tsunamis

1. Places where NOAA's Global Historical Tsunami Database records a tsunami's water arriving, with the greatest height it reached above sea level at the time. Only tsunamis NOAA rates probable or definite are counted. Heights from eyewitness accounts and tide gauges are mixed, and older events are less completely recorded.

NOAA NCEI/WDS Global Historical Tsunami Database, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Volcanoes within 100 miles

1. U.S. volcanoes within 100 miles, from the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. The threat category is the USGS 2018 National Volcanic Threat Assessment, which ranks volcanoes by how hazardous their past eruptions were and how many people and how much infrastructure lie near them. It is not a forecast of eruption.

USGS Volcano Hazards Program, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Mapped landslides

Mapped by WA WGS (46), NASA (1).

1. Landslides mapped in the USGS compilation of landslide inventories across the United States (version 3.0, 2025), rated probable or better. The compilation joins inventories made by federal and state agencies for different purposes and areas, so the number mapped in a county reflects how closely it has been surveyed as much as how often its slopes fail. An area with few records may simply not have been mapped. Deaths are as recorded in the inventories; a slide listed in two inventories is counted once.

USGS Landslide Inventories across the United States, version 3.0, retrieved October 27, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Aug 18, 2023Wildfire, Spokane Area$60.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The fire started by unknown human causes 3.5 miles northwest of Cheney, WA near Gray Road, west of Medical Lake and quickly spread by wind to the east. It burned 10085 acres and 240 structures. There was one fatality related to the fire.

2. Sep 1, 2023Wildfire, Spokane Area$60.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The fire started by unknown human causes 3.5 miles northwest of Cheney, WA near Gray Road, west of Medical Lake and quickly spread by wind to the east. It continued to be monitored through September 11. It burned 10085 acres and 240 structures. There was one fatality related to the fire.

3. Sep 1, 2023Wildfire, Spokane Area$15.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The fire started by unknown human causes 4 mile Northeast of Elk, WA. It continued to be monitored through September 11. It burned 10817 acres and 30 structures. There was one fatality related to the fire.

4. Aug 18, 2023Wildfire, Spokane Area$15.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The fire started by unknown human causes 4 mile Northeast of Elk, WA. It burned 10817 acres and 30 structures. There was one fatality related to the fire.

5. Jul 9, 2025Wildfire, Spokane Area$13.7 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Western Pines Fire was started on July 9 by a suspected human cause. It was located 10 miles north of Davenport Washington. It burned 5781 acres of timber including 21 homes and 30 outbuildings. It was contained on July 21. Cost is estimated.

6. Jan 4, 2009Heavy Snow, Spokane Area$10.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   A strong winter storm brought widespread heavy snow accumulations to Eastern Washington. This resulted in additional roof collapses in the Spokane area with about 50 collapses in Spokane county. This resulted in an estimated damage amount of ten million dollars. An estimated 200 Air and National Guard troops were called in to assist with snow removal. Several road closures also resulted from the snow. Numerous reports of five to nine inches of snow fell with higher amounts in the mountains. Along the East Slopes of the North Washington Cascades, snow accumulations ranged from eight inches in Leavenworth to 15 inches at Holden Village. In the Blue Mountains, a spotter five miles…

7. Apr 4, 2022High Wind, Upper Columbia Basin$5.3 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Mesonet in the Washtucna area recorded a gust of 54 at 1630LST. Several other sites recorded gusts into the upper 40s to low 50s. Power outage in Wilbur affected 52 customers. Winds also broke 1 inch thick tree limbs and blew shingles off roofs in the Spring Canyon area East of Grand Coulee.

8. Jun 21, 2026Wildfire, Upper Columbia Basin$4.9 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The fire started on the June 21 by an unknown human cause. It burned 3366 acres of shrub and grass including wheat fields. Evacuations impacted around 200 families. An unknown number of outbuildings were destroyed. It was contained on June 26. Damage is estimated.

9. Aug 13, 2025Wildfire, Spokane Area$3.9 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Crescent Road Fire started on August 13 by a suspected human cause. It was located 7 miles north of Reardan. It burned 881 acres of timber. It was contained on August 24. One home was lost. Cost is estimated.

10. Jun 16, 2026Wildfire, Spokane Area$3.5 million
    National Weather Service narrative

    Wildfire started on June 16 by human cause near the Camp Senaki area. It burned 213 acres of timber, 14 homes, and 4 outbuildings. Around 12000 people were under evacuation. One fatality was reported. Winds were sustained in the teens with gusts into the 35 to 45 mph range. Relative humidity was in the upper 20 percent. Felt field ASOS recorded a max gust of 43 mph. Damage cost is estimated.

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

107°FJun 30, 2021

All-time low

−28°FJan 31, 1996

Warmest night

75°FJun 29, 2015

Coldest day

−12°FDec 30, 1968

Wettest day

2.08 inMay 23, 1948

Snowiest day

15.0 inFeb 12, 1923

Hottest year

1958mean 50.1°F

Coldest year

2011mean 42.8°F

Wettest year

194826.06 in

Driest year

19297.30 in

Snowiest season

74.9 in1949-50

Station Davenport (USC00452007), 2,425 ft elevation, 7.8 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1893 to October 16, 2026; 97.5% 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 USC00452007.
• 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.
• Tsunamis NOAA NCEI/WDS Global Historical Tsunami Database.
• Volcanoes USGS Volcano Hazards Program, U.S. volcanoes and 2018 threat assessment.
• Landslides USGS Landslide Inventories across the United States, version 3.0 (2025).
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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