Tishomingo County, MS Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Tishomingo County, MS: what NOAA's tornado record says
Since 1950, NOAA has logged 25 tornado tracks crossing Tishomingo County - one about every 3 years, which lands it in our Moderate band. Nationally, Tishomingo County ranks at the 60th percentile for tornado frequency. Among 82 Mississippi counties in this dataset, Tishomingo County ranks 58 for how often a tornado touches down.
Tishomingo County's EF4-5 history
Tishomingo County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 25 tracks split 16 weak and 9 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Tishomingo County
Nationally, storm shelters and safe rooms run $2,890-$13,280. Because Tishomingo County is in Mississippi, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency's Safe Room Program can cut that by 75% (capped at $3,500), to about $722.5-$9,780 net - check current funding status before counting on it.
The outage nobody plans for
The storm that misses Tishomingo County outright can still take its power out - outbreak-scale outages across Mississippi are common well beyond the tracked path. A battery-backup unit handles that without a generator's setup or fuel.
Check your coverage, not just your risk
Because Mississippi allows wind/hail exclusions on standard homeowners policies, a Tishomingo 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. Tishomingo County covers about 424 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. Tishomingo County has about 18,553 residents.