Glasscock County, TX Environment & Hazard Risk

• DroughtRelatively High$1.69M/yr expected annual loss, about 75 events a year
• WildfireVery Low$87.56K/yr expected annual loss, about once every 279 years
• HailRelatively Low$232K/yr expected annual loss, about 4.3 events a year
• HurricaneVery Low$4,533/yr expected annual loss, about once every 136 years
• Strong windVery Low$124K/yr expected annual loss, about 1.8 events a year
• TornadoVery Low$83.76K/yr expected annual loss, about once every 2 years
• Winter weatherVery Low$5,842/yr expected annual loss, about 5.3 events a year
• Cold waveVery Low$36.57K/yr expected annual loss, about once every 2 years
• Heat waveVery Low$6,162/yr expected annual loss, about 5.4 events a year
• LightningVery Low$7,939/yr expected annual loss, about 46 events a year
• EarthquakeVery Low$1,826/yr expected annual loss, about once every 4,032 years
• Ice stormVery Low$219/yr expected annual loss, about once every 13 years
• LandslideVery Low$0/yr expected annual loss, about once every 13 years

Bars show the national percentile score (0 to 100) for each hazard. Dollar figures are expected annual losses to buildings, people and crops. Not rated here: avalanche, coastal flooding, riverine flooding, tsunami, volcanic activity.

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• Hail128
• Thunderstorm Wind55
• Flash Flood25
• Tornado21
• Drought16
• High Wind16
• Heavy Snow9
• Ice Storm4
• Funnel Cloud3
• Dust Storm2

• Drought08/01/1996

  Glasscock

  $12.3M damage

  What happened

  Toward the latter part of August plentiful rains were at last falling over all of the area. This pattern was started by the tropical plume that brought Hurricane Dolly westward through the Bay of Campeche to near Tampico, Mexico, across the Central America to where she dissipated in the eastern North Pacific. Although Dolly was over 1000 miles south of the area, this same plume of deep, tropical moisture locked over Southwest Texas and rained over much of the area on a daily basis through the end of the month.Since a drought is a very loosely defined phenomenon, there is no explicit beginning or end, but for the purposes of Storm Data there is no room for flexibility--only qualifications that can be made in this narrative. The effects in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico were mainly in the form of crop damage due to the dry weather. Those farms that were able to plant crops late in the season were able to grow crops successfully. With the threat to crops ending in August and the Eastern Pacific cold phase waning, it was felt that a definite trend away from the drought had begun. Many people would argue that the drought lasted through the end of 1996 as four years of...

• Hail2.5" hail10/09/2009

  St Lawrence, Glasscock County

  $2.06M damage

  What happened

  A Texas Tech Mesonet extension agent reported tennis ball size hail and extensive hail damage to sorghum and cotton crops near the area. Public reports indicated over 4500 acres of cotton were destroyed by the hail. In addition, 1000 acres of sorghum were destroyed. Several homes also sustained roof damage from the large hail.

• Thunderstorm Wind65 kt wind03/23/2000

  St Lawrence, Glasscock County

  1 injured, $20K damage

  What happened

  The Rear-flank downdraft from the tornadic supercell overturned 3 small trailers at one property. Winds hit from the northwest.

• Flash Flood03/23/2000

  Countywide, Glasscock County

  $400K damage

  What happened

  Glasscock County was probably the most affected county in the region by the flooding. Almost the entire county received in excess of 2 inches of rain with the northwest half (about 400 square miles) of the county getting inundated with around 6 inches of rain. Much of this rainfall collected in Mustang Draw that flowed northward into Howard County where the vehicle fatalities occurred. Highway 137 in the northwest part of the county was closed for many days before flood waters receded. The high, swift flows took out fence lines over much of the area.

• Hail0.75" hail10/10/2004

  Garden City, Glasscock County

  $275K damage

  What happened

  Farmers in southeastern Glasscock County reported that large hail damaged almost 4,000 acres of cotton crops.

• Thunderstorm Wind70 kt wind10/09/2009

  St Lawrence, Glasscock County

  $160K damage

• High Wind51 kt wind07/06/2026

  Glasscock

• High Wind54 kt wind05/10/2026

  Glasscock

• Thunderstorm Wind52 kt wind10/24/2025

  St Lawrence, Glasscock County

• Thunderstorm Wind56 kt wind06/10/2025

  St Lawrence, Glasscock County

• Hail1.5" hail06/10/2025

  Garden City, Glasscock County

• Hail1" hail06/10/2025

  Garden City, Glasscock County

• Hail1.5" hail06/10/2025

  Garden City, Glasscock County

• Hail1.5" hail06/10/2025

  Lees, Glasscock County

• Garden City Water System Glasscock CntyServes 450 · Groundwater · Local governmentNo health violations+2 monitoring or reporting