Daviess County, KY Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Daviess County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1958, NOAA has logged 32 tornado tracks crossing Daviess County - one about every 2.4 years, which lands it in our Elevated band. Nationally, Daviess County ranks at the 71st percentile for tornado frequency. Kentucky has 120 counties in this dataset; Daviess County ranks 5 of them by frequency.
Daviess County's EF4-5 history
Daviess County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 32 tracks split 22 weak and 10 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Daviess County
For a Daviess County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Kentucky-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
104,457 people live in Daviess County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Kentucky than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Daviess County covers about 458 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Daviess County has about 104,457 residents.