Name: Drought in Texas, October 31, 2025
Start: 2025-10-31T06:00
End: 2025-10-31T23:59
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 4

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS EWX wrote it up.

October rainfall was less than 50% of normal across most of South-Central Texas and drought conditions worsened in four counties. Fayette and Gonzales Counties changed from Severe (D2) Drought category to Extreme (D3) Drought while Dimmit and Lavaca went from Moderate (D1) Drought to D2. The rest of the counties were unchanged. Bexar and Medina Counties remained in D3. Atascosa, Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, Hays, Karnes, Travis, and Wilson remained in D2.At the end of the month, the seven-day average streamflow was much below (<10%) normal on the upper Colorado, lower Guadalupe, Medina, Lavaca, Blanco, San Marcos, lower Nueces, Atascosa, and upper San Antonio Rivers; below (10%-24%) normal on the lower Colorado and lower San Antonio Rivers; and normal (25%-75%) on the Frio River. |The Edwards Aquifer dropped 2.3 feet and was 39.4 feet below normal. Medina Lake dropped 1.2 feet and was 82.7 feet below conservation elevation. Lake Travis dropped 2.3 feet and was 12.0 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 1.3 feet and was 19.0 feet below normal. Most water providers encouraged conservation while San Antonio and Universal City imposed stage 3 restrictions and New Braunfels and Austin had stage 2. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette, Medina, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, and Travis had outdoor burn bans in effect at the end of the month.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 4:55 AM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 4:55 AM CST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

4 drought. Local standard time, as filed.

Drought, Dimmit

When: October 31, 6:00 AM CST to 11:59 PM CST
Where: Dimmit forecast zone
Reported by: Drought Monitor
Coordinates: 28.423, -99.757 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

October rainfall was less than 50% of normal across most of South-Central Texas and drought conditions worsened in four counties. Fayette and Gonzales Counties changed from Severe (D2) Drought category to Extreme (D3) Drought while Dimmit and Lavaca went from Moderate (D1) Drought to D2. The rest of the counties were unchanged. Bexar and Medina Counties remained in D3. Atascosa, Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, Hays, Karnes, Travis, and Wilson remained in D2.At the end of the month, the seven-day average streamflow was much below (<10%) normal on the upper Colorado, lower Guadalupe, Medina, Lavaca, Blanco, San Marcos, lower Nueces, Atascosa, and upper San Antonio Rivers; below (10%-24%) normal on the lower Colorado and lower San Antonio Rivers; and normal (25%-75%) on the Frio River. |The Edwards Aquifer dropped 2.3 feet and was 39.4 feet below normal. Medina Lake dropped 1.2 feet and was 82.7 feet below conservation elevation. Lake Travis dropped 2.3 feet and was 12.0 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 1.3 feet and was 19.0 feet below normal. Most water providers encouraged conservation while San Antonio and Universal City imposed stage 3 restrictions and New Braunfels and Austin had stage 2. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette, Medina, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, and Travis had outdoor burn bans in effect at the end of the month.

Drought, Fayette

When: October 31, 6:00 AM CST to 11:59 PM CST
Where: Fayette forecast zone
Reported by: Drought Monitor
Coordinates: 29.877, -96.920 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

October rainfall was less than 50% of normal across most of South-Central Texas and drought conditions worsened in four counties. Fayette and Gonzales Counties changed from Severe (D2) Drought category to Extreme (D3) Drought while Dimmit and Lavaca went from Moderate (D1) Drought to D2. The rest of the counties were unchanged. Bexar and Medina Counties remained in D3. Atascosa, Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, Hays, Karnes, Travis, and Wilson remained in D2.At the end of the month, the seven-day average streamflow was much below (<10%) normal on the upper Colorado, lower Guadalupe, Medina, Lavaca, Blanco, San Marcos, lower Nueces, Atascosa, and upper San Antonio Rivers; below (10%-24%) normal on the lower Colorado and lower San Antonio Rivers; and normal (25%-75%) on the Frio River. |The Edwards Aquifer dropped 2.3 feet and was 39.4 feet below normal. Medina Lake dropped 1.2 feet and was 82.7 feet below conservation elevation. Lake Travis dropped 2.3 feet and was 12.0 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 1.3 feet and was 19.0 feet below normal. Most water providers encouraged conservation while San Antonio and Universal City imposed stage 3 restrictions and New Braunfels and Austin had stage 2. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette, Medina, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, and Travis had outdoor burn bans in effect at the end of the month.

Drought, Gonzales

When: October 31, 6:00 AM CST to 11:59 PM CST
Where: Gonzales forecast zone
Reported by: Drought Monitor
Coordinates: 29.457, -97.492 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

October rainfall was less than 50% of normal across most of South-Central Texas and drought conditions worsened in four counties. Fayette and Gonzales Counties changed from Severe (D2) Drought category to Extreme (D3) Drought while Dimmit and Lavaca went from Moderate (D1) Drought to D2. The rest of the counties were unchanged. Bexar and Medina Counties remained in D3. Atascosa, Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, Hays, Karnes, Travis, and Wilson remained in D2.At the end of the month, the seven-day average streamflow was much below (<10%) normal on the upper Colorado, lower Guadalupe, Medina, Lavaca, Blanco, San Marcos, lower Nueces, Atascosa, and upper San Antonio Rivers; below (10%-24%) normal on the lower Colorado and lower San Antonio Rivers; and normal (25%-75%) on the Frio River. |The Edwards Aquifer dropped 2.3 feet and was 39.4 feet below normal. Medina Lake dropped 1.2 feet and was 82.7 feet below conservation elevation. Lake Travis dropped 2.3 feet and was 12.0 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 1.3 feet and was 19.0 feet below normal. Most water providers encouraged conservation while San Antonio and Universal City imposed stage 3 restrictions and New Braunfels and Austin had stage 2. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette, Medina, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, and Travis had outdoor burn bans in effect at the end of the month.

Drought, Lavaca

When: October 31, 6:00 AM CST to 11:59 PM CST
Where: Lavaca forecast zone
Reported by: Drought Monitor
Coordinates: 29.384, -96.930 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

October rainfall was less than 50% of normal across most of South-Central Texas and drought conditions worsened in four counties. Fayette and Gonzales Counties changed from Severe (D2) Drought category to Extreme (D3) Drought while Dimmit and Lavaca went from Moderate (D1) Drought to D2. The rest of the counties were unchanged. Bexar and Medina Counties remained in D3. Atascosa, Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, Hays, Karnes, Travis, and Wilson remained in D2.At the end of the month, the seven-day average streamflow was much below (<10%) normal on the upper Colorado, lower Guadalupe, Medina, Lavaca, Blanco, San Marcos, lower Nueces, Atascosa, and upper San Antonio Rivers; below (10%-24%) normal on the lower Colorado and lower San Antonio Rivers; and normal (25%-75%) on the Frio River. |The Edwards Aquifer dropped 2.3 feet and was 39.4 feet below normal. Medina Lake dropped 1.2 feet and was 82.7 feet below conservation elevation. Lake Travis dropped 2.3 feet and was 12.0 feet below normal. Canyon Lake dropped 1.3 feet and was 19.0 feet below normal. Most water providers encouraged conservation while San Antonio and Universal City imposed stage 3 restrictions and New Braunfels and Austin had stage 2. Of the counties in D2 or worse drought, Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette, Medina, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, and Travis had outdoor burn bans in effect at the end of the month.

What these are

Drought: A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1297138, 1297139, 1297140, 1297141.