1 federal flood & hurricane disasters
Share of the whole county outline, rivers and lakes included; parts FEMA hasn’t mapped count as zero.
Shaded areas are FEMA’s mapped flood hazard zones in and around Briscoe County, Texas. Zoomed out they are simplified; at street level the map switches to FEMA’s exact layer. Tap anywhere to check that spot, or search an address above.
7 NOAA storm reports from Briscoe County describe what happened, in the words of the forecasters who covered it. Read the Texas flood stories →
16 federal disaster declarations since 1970, 1 of them floods, coastal storms or hurricanes.
| Disaster | Began |
|---|---|
| Severe Winter Storm | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Severe Winter Storms | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Wildfires | Aug 30, 2011 |
| Wildfires | Apr 6, 2011 |
| Wildfires | Mar 14, 2008 |
| Extreme Wildfire Threat | Nov 27, 2005 |
| Hurricane Rita | Sep 23, 2005 |
| Hurricane Katrina Evacuation | Aug 29, 2005 |
Weather and water disasters only; most recent first. Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations.
14 since 1996: 11 flash floods and 3 river or area floods.
| Event | Date | Damage |
|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood | Jul 17, 2021 | — |
| Flood | Oct 8, 2018 | — |
| Flood | Oct 4, 2017 | — |
| Flood | Apr 22, 2015 | — |
| Flash Flood | Jun 19, 2013 | $5,000 |
| Flash Flood | Sep 26, 2012 | $2,000 |
| Flash Flood | Jun 3, 2012 | — |
| Flash Flood | Jul 11, 2011 | $20,000 |
— = no damage estimate in the record. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database.
Flash Flood · Jul 17, 2021. An upper level trough moved across the region during the afternoon of the 15th. This trough was also accompanied by a surface cold front that led to scattered thunderstorm development during the afternoon and evening hours. Ample atmospheric moisture combined with weak wind shear lead to slow moving efficient rain producers which led to several heavy rain reports. Additionally, very hot surface temperatures were c…
Flood · Oct 8, 2018. Early morning showers and thunderstorms across much of the South Plains were followed by additional rounds of heavy rainfall through midday. The latter rounds of rain were focused near and just east of the Interstate 27 and US Highway 87 corridor where as much as two inches of rain fell on top of soils that were already saturated from heavy rains that fell just three days earlier. The result was widespread floodi…
Flood · Oct 4, 2017. Beginning on the evening of the 4th and lasting through the early morning of the 5th, very heavy rains fell over portions of eastern Briscoe, Hall, and western Childress Counties. A very moist atmosphere in place and training convection allowed for an estimated swath of 5-7 inches of rainfall over a widespread area. A river gauge six miles southwest of Brice in Hall County recorded a rainfall amount of 5.71 inches…
Flood · Apr 22, 2015. Early this morning, a series of outflow boundaries moved south across the southern Texas Panhandle and much of the Rolling Plains. The most organized of these boundaries would eventually retreat north before stalling from near Hereford (Deaf Smith County, WFO AMA) southeast to Paducah (Cottle County). This boundary provided the focus for an intense and long-lived supercell that developed west of Hereford by mid-af…
National Weather Service narratives, lightly trimmed. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database.
Every colour on the map above is a place on this drawing: where the ground sits relative to the flood FEMA plans for.
If a building in Briscoe County is in a high-risk zone (A or V) and its mortgage comes from a federally regulated or insured lender, or is federally backed, flood insurance is required.
Outside those zones it is optional, and often worth having: from 2014 to 2024 nearly one-third of NFIP claims came from outside the high-risk Special Flood Hazard Area. Since Risk Rating 2.0, NFIP premiums are set for each building, so the only reliable price is a quote: FloodSmart.gov or a local agent.