Texas

Storm History: Freestone County, Texas

297 episodes, 391 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Freestone 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
391
Deaths
2
Injuries
5
Damage
$6.6 million
Episodes
297

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
Tornado12113$1.9 million
Drought6700$2.1 million
Flash Flood5700$581,000
Hail5300$630,000
Heat2900
Excessive Heat2000
Winter Storm1110$140,000
Thunderstorm Wind800$122,000
Heavy Rain500
Ice Storm502$20,000
Heavy Snow300$12,000
Flood300
Cold/Wind Chill300
Winter Weather200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Tropical Storm100$30,000
Wildfire100$1.1 million

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 Freestone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Freestone CountyEvery warning in Freestone 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.