Texas

Storm History: Burnet County, Texas

407 episodes, 655 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Burnet County, Texas: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
655
Deaths
10
Injuries
48
Damage
$204 million
Episodes
407

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.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado185043$7.6 million
Hail15800$10 million
Flash Flood14885$184 million
Drought8200
Thunderstorm Wind2600$529,000
Winter Storm1910$1.0 million
Winter Weather800
Wildfire700
Excessive Heat600
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Ice Storm300
Flood200$150,000
Strong Wind200$10,000
Heavy Snow100
Heat110
High Wind100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Burnet County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Burnet CountyEvery warning in Burnet County since 1986Every county in Texas

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 2026-09-24.