Texas

Storm History: Fayette County, Texas

271 episodes, 376 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fayette 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
376
Deaths
4
Injuries
20
Damage
$60 million
Episodes
271

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
Flash Flood93110$844,000
Tornado8414$7.5 million
Hail8300$180,000
Drought5800
Thunderstorm Wind1600$354,000
Winter Storm1110
Winter Weather700
Tropical Storm600$50 million
Excessive Heat600
Flood505$300,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Wildfire210$1.0 million
Strong Wind101$10,000
Ice Storm100

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 Fayette County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fayette CountyEvery warning in Fayette 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.