2 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 Cottle 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.
3 NOAA storm reports from Cottle County describe what happened, in the words of the forecasters who covered it. Read the Texas flood stories →
19 federal disaster declarations since 1990, 2 of them floods, coastal storms or hurricanes.
| Disaster | Began |
|---|---|
| Severe Winter Storm | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Severe Winter Storms | Feb 11, 2021 |
| Severe Winter Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, And Flooding | Dec 26, 2015 |
| Wildfires | Apr 6, 2011 |
| Hurricane Alex | Jun 30, 2010 |
| Wildfires | Mar 14, 2008 |
| Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding | Jun 16, 2007 |
| Extreme Wildfire Threat | Nov 27, 2005 |
Weather and water disasters only; most recent first. Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations.
7 since 1996: 4 flash floods and 2 river or area floods.
| Event | Date | Damage |
|---|---|---|
| Flood | Apr 16, 2016 | — |
| Flood | Oct 6, 2016 | — |
| Flash Flood | Jun 19, 2013 | — |
| Tropical Depression | Aug 17, 2007 | — |
| Flash Flood | Oct 15, 2006 | — |
| Flash Flood | Sep 10, 2006 | $75,000 |
| Flash Flood | Sep 20, 2001 | $30,000 |
— = no damage estimate in the record. Source: NOAA Storm Events Database.
Flood · Apr 16, 2016. In advance of a slow-moving upper low in the Four Corners, a dryline over the eastern South Plains focused thunderstorm development by early afternoon. As these storms moved northeast and off the Caprock, they intensified with some becoming supercells. These supercells produced copious amounts of severe hail and heavy rainfall that resulted in some flooding. One supercell produced three EF-0 tornadoes from nort…
Flood · Oct 6, 2016. Around 1400 CST, a dryline focused discrete thunderstorm development in the far southeast Texas Panhandle. Very strong instability with mixed layer CAPEs around 3500 J/kg allowed these storms to intensify with supercell structures observed at times. One of these storms produced damaging hail to two inches in diameter in Kirkland (southeast Childress County). Also, periodic training of storms through late evenin…
Flash Flood · Jun 19, 2013. During the morning hours, a complex of thunderstorms propagated slowly southward from the eastern Panhandle into the Rolling Plains. Several of these storms were strong to severe, and one storm produced straight-line wind damage in Quitaque, including lifting the top of the town water tower off. However, the more widespread impact was very heavy rainfall that produced flash flooding over a large chunk of the south…
Tropical Depression · Aug 17, 2007. Tropical Depression Erin, previously a tropical storm during landfall on the middle Texas coast early on the 16th, brought large amounts of rain to portions of west Texas. This rain fell primarily on the 17th and 18th of August on the South Plains and Rolling Plains before the system moved northeastward over Oklahoma. ||Erin maintained a defined circulation well after making landfall, and even strengthened signifi…
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 Cottle 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.