McMullen County, TX Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
McMullen County, TX: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1956, NOAA has logged 6 tornado tracks crossing McMullen County - one about every 12.7 years, which lands it in our Minimal band. Nationally, McMullen County ranks at the 18th percentile for tornado frequency. Within Texas alone, McMullen County ranks 242 of 254 counties for tornado frequency.
McMullen County's EF4-5 history
McMullen County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 6 tracks split 5 weak and 1 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near McMullen County
For a McMullen County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Texas-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
565 people live in McMullen County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Texas than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
Check your coverage, not just your risk
Because Texas allows wind/hail exclusions on standard homeowners policies, a McMullen County homeowner should confirm tornado wind damage is actually covered, not assume it - a separate endorsement is common here.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. McMullen County covers about 1,140 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. McMullen County has about 565 residents.