Jones County, Texas

What hazards hit Jones County most?

The most frequent records are hail reports: 415 since 1957. 60% of its hail reports since 1957 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 Jones County had?

NOAA records 88 tornadoes in Jones County from 1954 to 2025, the strongest rated EF3, with 1 death and 25 injuries recorded in the county. That is 19th of 254 Texas counties and 245th 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 88 tornadoes whose track touched Jones County since 1950 (NOAA's county records number 88, the same count); along their whole tracks they killed 1 person.

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 Jones County?

The most recent record with damage, injuries or deaths is the May 2, 2024 tornado (4 injuries).

The tornado was part of a cyclical supercell moving southeastward through Jones County just west of US-277. The tornado that produced damage dropped just north of CR-460 and moved southeast before causing damage to metal outbuildings on two properties. It continued southeast then turned to the south-southwest where it damaged a home and snapped some trees and wooden power poles. It continued southwestward before completely destroying a home that was under construction. It also threw several trucks and a trailer about 100 yards before crossing CR-458. Continuing southwestward, the tornado completely destroyed another house and injured a family of four. The tornado made one more turn southeastward where it hit a small neighborhood. In the neighborhood, it caused roof damage to a few homes and outbuildings. …
National Weather Service event narrative, NOAA Storm Events Database (search the full record, event 1187506)

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 Jones 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: 50 records against 6 in the decade before, 50 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 Jones 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?

60% of its hail reports since 1957 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 Jones County

FEMA's register lists 24 declarations that include Jones County: 16 major disasters, 7 emergencies and one fire management assistance declaration. Most were for severe storm (6) and flood (5).

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 Jones County had?

NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 38 flood or flash flood records for Jones County from 1996 to 2025, on 31 days, with 2 deaths. By flood insurance claims since 1978 (OpenFEMA, as of September 8, 2026), Jones County ranks 1214th of 2,942 U.S. counties.

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid $4.0 million on 119 claims filed in Jones County; the most in one year was 30 in 2007. 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 Jones County

FEMA's National Risk Index rates Jones County Very Low overall, with an expected annual loss of $8.9 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 Jones County

1. Taylor County 1,268
2. Jones County 886
3. Haskell County 740
4. Nolan County 615
5. Callahan County 602
6. Fisher County 535
7. Shackelford County 407
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 Jones CountyThe hazard risk calculator: 18 hazards beside the county's record
• Download Jones County's FEMA declarations (CSV)24 rows: every declaration that named the county, for your own analysis