Haskell County, Texas

What hazards hit Haskell County most?

The most frequent records are hail reports: 296 since 1956. 69% of its hail reports since 1956 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 Haskell County had?

NOAA records 58 tornadoes in Haskell County from 1951 to 2025, the strongest rated F4, with 13 deaths and 29 injuries recorded in the county. That is 71st of 254 Texas 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 60 tornadoes whose track touched Haskell County since 1950 (NOAA's county records number 58: they file a crossing tornado once per county segment, and the two databases differ on some tracks); along their whole tracks they killed 18 people, 13 of them in Haskell 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 Haskell County?

The most recent record with damage, injuries or deaths is the May 16, 2021 tornado ($109,000 in damage in 2025 dollars).

This EF-0 tornado with peak winds estimated at 85 mph began just west of U.S. Highway 277 where it damaged a roof of a home and broke many smaller to medium size Mesquite tree branches. It crossed U.S. Highway 277, broke more tree limbs and struck an auto and body shop. The tornado lifted a small steel metal building at the auto and body shop and threw it 75 yards. It broke tree branches and damaged the roof of a nearby building. The tornado also caused debris to penetrate a nearby metal building, and it damaged a nearby porch.
National Weather Service event narrative, NOAA Storm Events Database (search the full record, event 960664)

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 Haskell 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: 52 records against 8 in the decade before, 52 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 Haskell 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?

69% of its hail reports since 1956 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 Haskell County

FEMA's register lists 17 declarations that include Haskell County: 10 major disasters, 7 emergencies and 0 fire management assistance declarations. Most were for fire (4) and severe storm (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 Haskell County had?

NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 36 flood or flash flood records for Haskell County from 1996 to 2024, on 24 days, with 0 deaths. By flood insurance claims since 1978 (OpenFEMA, as of September 8, 2026), Haskell County ranks 1017th of 2,942 U.S. counties.

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid $2.3 million on 176 claims filed in Haskell County; the most in one year was 38 in 2018. 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 Haskell County

FEMA's National Risk Index rates Haskell County Very Low overall, with an expected annual loss of $4.4 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 Haskell County

1. Jones County 886
2. Haskell County 740
3. Knox County 654
4. Baylor County 543
5. Throckmorton County 501
6. Shackelford County 407
7. King County 400
8. Stonewall County 382

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 Haskell CountyThe hazard risk calculator: 18 hazards beside the county's record
• Download Haskell County's FEMA declarations (CSV)17 rows: every declaration that named the county, for your own analysis