Cass County, Texas

What hazards hit Cass County most?

The most frequent records are severe thunderstorm wind events: 275 since 1960. 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 Cass County had?

NOAA records 71 tornadoes in Cass County from 1950 to 2024, the strongest rated EF3, with 0 deaths and 9 injuries recorded in the county. That is 22nd of 254 Texas counties and 291st of 3,080 U.S. counties by days with tornadoes per 1,000 square miles since 1950. 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 72 tornadoes whose track touched Cass County since 1950 (NOAA's county records number 71: they file a crossing tornado once per county segment, and the two databases differ on some tracks); along their whole tracks they killed 1 person, 0 of them in Cass County.

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 Cass County?

The most recent record with damage, injuries or deaths is the July 8, 2024 tornado ($28,000 in damage in 2025 dollars).

An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 110 mph touched down between CR 2993 and CR 2915 east of Hughes Springs. Upon crossing CR 2993, the tornado uprooted multiple trees and snapped a wooden power pole near its base. The tornado continued west-northwest across a wooded area south of CR 2911, before crossing CR 2910, snapping and uprooting more trees. The tornado then took a more westerly course along the south side of Highway 11, with the tornado widest here, as trees on the north side of the highway were snapped and uprooted towards the south and east. Tree damage was observed west along Highway 11 to the Highway 49 intersection, before it became more isolated, and large limbs were snapped as the tornado lifted just before moving into Hughes Springs.
National Weather Service event narrative, NOAA Storm Events Database (search the full record, event 1200330)

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

A damage figure marked "step" is a record from before 1993: NOAA then filed damage by category, and the figure is the category as entered, in the dollars of that year, not an estimate of the loss.

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 Cass 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).

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

What time of year?

Records by month in Cass County. The two busiest months are in violet.

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

Federal disaster declarations for Cass County

FEMA's register lists 28 declarations that include Cass County: 19 major disasters, 8 emergencies and one fire management assistance declaration. Most were for hurricane (7) and fire (6).

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 Cass County had?

NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 38 flood or flash flood records for Cass County from 1997 to 2026, on 25 days, with 0 deaths. By flood insurance claims since 1978 (OpenFEMA, as of September 8, 2026), Cass County ranks 1907th of 2,942 U.S. counties.

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid $773,000 on 30 claims filed in Cass County; the most in one year was 11 in 2009. 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 Cass County

FEMA's National Risk Index rates Cass County Relatively Low overall, with an expected annual loss of $10.8 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 Cass County

1. Caddo Parish, LA 2,132
2. Bowie County 1,046
3. Cass County 840
4. Miller County, AR 762
5. Marion County 464
6. Morris County 412

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
• Severe thunderstorm wind in TexasThe state's severe thunderstorm wind events, 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 Cass CountyThe hazard risk calculator: 18 hazards beside the county's record
• Download Cass County's FEMA declarations (CSV)28 rows: every declaration that named the county, for your own analysis