Bandera County, Texas

What hazards hit Bandera County most?

The most frequent records are hail reports: 140 since 1963. 62% of its hail reports since 1963 fell in April and May. The rank column places the county among Texas's counties by days with a record per 1,000 square miles of land over each hazard's complete period.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (county and forecast-zone records attributed to the county; a zone record shows its own totals on each county it covers). Days: dates with at least one record of the hazard in the county. Ranks: days with a record per 1,000 square miles of land (Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer), since 1950 for tornadoes, 1955 for hail and thunderstorm wind, 1996 for the rest.

How many tornadoes has Bandera County had?

NOAA records 7 tornadoes in Bandera County from 1959 to 1983, the strongest rated F1, with 0 deaths and 0 injuries recorded in the county. A tornado that crossed a county line is counted in each county it touched, with the length of its path inside the county.

Counted as whole tornadoes rather than county records, the Storm Prediction Center's database holds 7 tornadoes whose track touched Bandera County since 1950 (NOAA's county records number 7, the same count); along their whole tracks they killed 0 people.

Map of the strongest tornado tracks in Texas.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, tornado records by county (path length in the county, maximum width); ratings as published: F scale before February 1, 2007, EF scale after. Whole-track figures: NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database (1950-2025). SPC severe weather database.

When was the last damaging storm in Bandera County?

The most recent record with damage, injuries or deaths is the June 15, 2026 flash flood (1 death).

Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. A vehicle was swept away at the 1500 block of Lower Mason Creek Rd. into Mason Creek. One person was found dead in the vehicle approximately two miles downstream.
National Weather Service event narrative, NOAA Storm Events Database (search the full record, event 1350816)

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database; every record of 2025-2026 is listed, earlier ones when they caused deaths, injuries or $250,000 of damage (2025 dollars), and every tornado.

The deadliest and costliest records

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: deaths and injuries direct and indirect; damage is property plus crops as estimated by the National Weather Service, converted to 2025 dollars.

Is it getting more frequent?

Records per decade for Bandera County's most frequent hazards. Counts rose everywhere after 1996, when NOAA began recording every event type, so compare decades within a hazard's complete period only (the shaded cells come before it).

Drought in the 2010s: 49 records against 6 in the decade before, 49 of them forecast-zone records. Cells marked z rose mostly through zone records. The local National Weather Service office files these once per forecast zone, so a change in how it draws its zones or splits a storm into records moves this count as much as the weather does; read it beside the Bandera County days with a record above.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records per calendar decade; zone records from the CZ_TYPE field (Z).

What time of year?

62% of its hail reports since 1963 fell in April and May. The two busiest months are in violet.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records by the month they began.

Federal disaster declarations for Bandera County

FEMA's register lists 18 declarations that include Bandera County: 10 major disasters, 8 emergencies and 0 fire management assistance declarations. Most were for flood (6) and fire (3).

Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (v2), declarations through October 2, 2026; one declaration is counted once however many areas it names. OpenFEMA dataset page.

How many floods has Bandera County had?

NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 130 flood or flash flood records for Bandera County from 1996 to 2026, on 99 days, with 6 deaths. By flood insurance claims since 1978 (OpenFEMA, as of September 8, 2026), Bandera County ranks 893rd of 2,942 U.S. counties.

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid $5.9 million on 218 claims filed in Bandera County; the most in one year was 104 in 2002. Claims count insured losses only: uninsured flood damage is not in this file.

Source: FEMA OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims, as of September 8, 2026; claims by year of loss, payments in the dollars of the year paid. OpenFEMA dataset page.

FEMA's modeled risk for Bandera County

FEMA's National Risk Index rates Bandera County Relatively Low overall, with an expected annual loss of $17.0 million. These are FEMA's model estimates of future loss from 18 hazards, not a count of what happened; they can differ from the record above.

Source: FEMA National Risk Index, county table, December 2025 release. FEMA's National Risk Index map.

Counties that share a border with Bandera County

1. Bexar County 1,629
2. Kerr County 583
3. Uvalde County 573
4. Medina County 538
5. Bandera County 468
6. Kendall County 435
7. Real County 370

Source: U.S. Census Bureau county adjacency file; NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records since 1950. The Census Bureau's adjacency file.

Next

• Tornadoes in TexasEvery Texas tornado since 1950 and the counties with the most per square mile
• Hail in TexasThe state's hail reports, by county, year and month
• The Texas recordEvery hazard in the state, its deadliest events and its federal declarations
• FEMA's risk rating for each hazard in Bandera CountyThe hazard risk calculator: 18 hazards beside the county's record
• Download Bandera County's FEMA declarations (CSV)18 rows: every declaration that named the county, for your own analysis