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US Counties With the Highest Tornado Risk

These counties face the highest tornado risk in the US per FEMA's National Risk Index. Many sit within Tornado Alley, where warm, moist air collides with cool, dry air to spawn severe supercell thunderstorms. Click any county for its full hazard profile.

# County Tornado risk
1 Cook County 10.0
2 Harris County 10.0
3 Dallas County 10.0
4 Tarrant County 10.0
5 Bexar County 10.0
6 Wayne County 10.0
7 Hillsborough County 10.0
8 Travis County 10.0
9 Hennepin County 10.0
10 Oakland County 10.0
11 Collin County 10.0
12 Shelby County 10.0
13 Denton County 10.0
14 Oklahoma County 10.0
15 Jefferson County 10.0
16 Jackson County 10.0
17 Jefferson County 10.0
18 East Baton Rouge County 10.0
19 Miami-Dade County 9.9
20 Philadelphia County 9.9
21 Orange County 9.9
22 Franklin County 9.9
23 Cuyahoga County 9.9
24 Marion County 9.9
25 Pinellas County 9.9
26 Milwaukee County 9.9
27 DuPage County 9.9
28 Macomb County 9.9
29 Hamilton County 9.9
30 Fort Bend County 9.9
31 Cobb County 9.9
32 Lake County 9.9
33 Will County 9.9
34 Tulsa County 9.9
35 Montgomery County 9.9
36 Johnson County 9.9
37 Douglas County 9.9
38 Pasco County 9.9
39 Ramsey County 9.9
40 Sedgwick County 9.9
41 Kane County 9.9
42 Lake County 9.9
43 Genesee County 9.9
44 Pulaski County 9.9
45 Madison County 9.9
46 Bell County 9.9
47 Hamilton County 9.9
48 Lancaster County 9.9
49 Lubbock County 9.9
50 McLennan County 9.9

Source: FEMA National Risk Index. Scores normalized 1–10. City scores inherit county-level FEMA data. For informational purposes only.

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