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The chance of earthquake damage in Bellville is about the same as Texas average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in Bellville is lower than Texas average and is higher than the national average.

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Earthquake Index, #1515

Bellville, TX	0.00
Texas	0.04
U.S.	1.81

The earthquake index value is calculated based on historical earthquake events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the earthquake level in a region. A higher earthquake index value means a higher chance of an earthquake.

Volcano Index, #1

Bellville, TX	0.0000
Texas	0.0000
U.S.	0.0023

The volcano index value is calculated based on the currently known volcanoes using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the possibility of a region being affected by a possible volcano eruption. A higher volcano index value means a higher chance of being affected.

Tornado Index, #1074

Bellville, TX	175.05
Texas	208.58
U.S.	136.45

The tornado index value is calculated based on historical tornado events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the tornado level in a region. A higher tornado index value means a higher chance of tornado events.

Other Weather Extremes Events

A total of 2,012 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of Bellville, TX were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:

Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count
Avalanche:	0	Blizzard:	0	Cold:	0	Dense Fog:	0	Drought:	66
Dust Storm:	4	Flood:	339	Hail:	680	Heat:	16	Heavy Snow:	10
High Surf:	0	Hurricane:	2	Ice Storm:	15	Landslide:	0	Strong Wind:	32
Thunderstorm Winds:	692	Tropical Storm:	6	Wildfire:	6	Winter Storm:	22	Winter Weather:	19
Other:	103

Volcanos Nearby

No volcano is found in or near Bellville, TX.

Historical Earthquake Events

No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near Bellville, TX.

No historical earthquake events found in or near Bellville, TX.

Historical Tornado Events

A total of 65 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Bellville, TX.

Distance (miles)	Date	Magnitude	Start Lat/Log	End Lat/Log	Length	Width	Fatalities	Injuries	Property Damage	Crop Damage	Affected County
0.4	1961-03-16	2	29°57'N / 96°16'W		0.10 Mile	80 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Austin
10.8	1950-06-05	3	30°11'N / 96°24'W	30°01'N / 96°03'W	23.90 Miles	67 Yards	0	6	250K	0	Washington
12.2	1983-01-31	2	29°47'N / 96°08'W	29°50'N / 96°08'W	3.00 Miles	60 Yards	0	4	2.5M	0	Austin
14.3	1957-10-14	2	30°06'N / 96°06'W		1.00 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Waller
16.9	1971-02-25	2	30°10'N / 96°23'W		0.30 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Washington
16.9	1971-02-25	2	30°10'N / 96°23'W		0.30 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Washington
19.5	1957-10-14	3	30°07'N / 96°00'W		1.00 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Waller
21.2	1962-06-18	2	30°04'N / 95°56'W				0	0	0K	0	Waller
21.5	1998-10-18	2	29°49'N / 95°56'W	29°49'N / 95°56'W	1.00 Mile	50 Yards	1	1	75K	0	Waller
		Brief Description: Tornado destroyed mobile home. One person killed and another injured in the home. Nine other homes damaged and 2 barns destroyed. M47MH
21.7	1957-10-14	2	30°03'N / 95°55'W		0.50 Mile	17 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Waller
23.6	1964-02-04	2	29°36'N / 96°20'W	29°37'N / 96°17'W	3.80 Miles	880 Yards	0	1	250K	0	Colorado
26.2	1964-05-01	2	30°18'N / 96°12'W	30°20'N / 96°07'W	5.60 Miles	880 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Washington
26.7	1986-02-05	2	29°50'N / 95°51'W	29°50'N / 95°49'W	4.00 Miles	170 Yards	0	5	250K	0	Waller
28.8	1986-02-05	2	29°50'N / 95°49'W	29°52'N / 95°46'W	4.00 Miles	170 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Harris
29.3	1953-12-02	2	30°22'N / 96°11'W				2	5	0K	0	Washington
31.2	1954-04-30	2	30°08'N / 96°49'W	30°12'N / 96°37'W	12.80 Miles	880 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Fayette
31.3	1983-11-19	2	30°24'N / 96°14'W		1.10 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	2.5M	0	Brazos
31.6	1960-02-17	2	29°46'N / 95°48'W	29°48'N / 95°44'W	4.90 Miles	100 Yards	0	3	25K	0	Harris
32.1	1992-11-21	2	29°41'N / 95°48'W	29°47'N / 95°46'W	4.00 Miles	200 Yards	0	6	25.0M	0	Harris
33.9	1971-02-25	2	29°48'N / 96°48'W		0.50 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Fayette
34.1	1973-02-13	2	29°58'N / 95°43'W	29°59'N / 95°40'W	3.30 Miles	30 Yards	0	1	25K	0	Harris
34.6	1971-02-25	2	29°44'N / 96°47'W		0.50 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Colorado
34.9	1992-11-21	2	29°47'N / 95°46'W	29°58'N / 95°36'W	21.00 Miles	200 Yards	0	5	25.0M	0	Harris
35.3	2000-03-10	3	30°25'N / 96°41'W	30°24'N / 96°21'W	21.00 Miles	800 Yards	0	2	1.0M	0	Burleson
		Brief Description: Tornado touched down near Harmony at 1955 CST with significant tree damage including an 18 inch diameter tree blown down. A trailer was also significantly damaged. Tornado then tracked to just south of Center Line with mostly F0 tree damage along its path. Tornado then reached the Pin Oak subdivision at about 2022 CST. Several trailers, including a double-wide, were destroyed. A total of 7 homes were destroyed and another 10 severely damaged in this area, with damage reaching F2 status. Tornado then struck a ranch on the south side of FM 1361 with large trees uprooted or cut in half and windows blown out and portion of roof torn off large frame house. Several rural outbuildings at the ranch which had been bolted down were destroyed. Damage in this area was rated F3 with damage swath up to a half mile wide. Tornado then tracked to just north of Clay by 2051 CST with a narrow swath of F0 to F1 tree damage along the path. When tornado passed north of Clay before dissipating, car was blown off road and damage swath reached 200 yards wide.
35.7	1955-06-05	2	29°42'N / 96°47'W				0	0	0K	0	Colorado
35.8	1971-02-25	2	29°48'N / 96°50'W		0.50 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Fayette
36.6	1965-09-22	3	30°13'N / 95°44'W		0.80 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Montgomery
36.6	1966-03-28	3	29°27'N / 96°20'W	29°23'N / 96°12'W	9.30 Miles	1760 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Colorado
36.6	1993-04-07	2	29°25'N / 96°17'W		0.50 Mile	400 Yards	0	0	50K	0	Wharton
		Brief Description: The Wharton Newspaper reported large trees blown down, metal roofs blown off barns and water pump housings blown over on Farm-to-Market Road 2614 northwest of Egypt near the community of Bonus. There were numerous reports of street flooding in the Wharton vicinity.
37.6	1962-02-23	2	30°15'N / 96°47'W		2.00 Miles	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Lee
37.7	1965-04-19	3	29°27'N / 96°00'W		0.20 Mile	150 Yards	1	3	25K	0	Fort Bend
38.7	1967-09-21	2	29°34'N / 96°44'W		1.00 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Colorado
38.8	1986-02-05	2	30°01'N / 95°37'W		2.50 Miles	70 Yards	0	0	2.5M	0	Harris
39.2	1961-11-22	3	29°24'N / 96°05'W		2.00 Miles	200 Yards	0	1	0K	0	Wharton
39.3	1957-03-20	3	30°16'N / 96°50'W	30°19'N / 96°44'W	7.20 Miles	33 Yards	0	2	25K	0	Lee
39.6	1974-09-13	3	29°35'N / 95°45'W	29°37'N / 95°43'W	3.60 Miles	73 Yards	0	2	0K	0	Fort Bend
42.3	1981-05-09	2	29°30'N / 95°49'W	29°28'N / 95°47'W	3.30 Miles	40 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Fort Bend
42.6	1983-05-20	2	29°54'N / 96°06'W	29°55'N / 95°00'W	4.00 Miles	333 Yards	1	2	250K	0	Harris
43.0	1957-03-20	3	30°23'N / 96°47'W	30°27'N / 96°41'W	7.60 Miles	880 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Burleson
43.0	1974-07-14	2	29°47'N / 95°34'W		0.80 Mile	880 Yards	0	0	2.5M	0	Harris
43.1	1981-05-16	2	30°27'N / 96°48'W	30°24'N / 96°39'W	9.70 Miles	73 Yards	0	1	250K	0	Burleson
43.6	1954-07-06	2	29°42'N / 96°54'W	29°43'N / 96°58'W	4.50 Miles	50 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Colorado
43.7	1972-03-20	2	29°20'N / 96°05'W		0.50 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Wharton
43.8	1965-01-21	2	29°37'N / 96°53'W		0.80 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Fayette
43.9	2003-11-17	2	29°37'N / 95°38'W	29°37'N / 95°38'W	1.50 Miles	200 Yards	0	60	500K	0	Fort Bend
		Brief Description: Tornado touched down on west Airport Drive near Industrial in Sugar Land. 60 injuries with 7 people sent to hospital for further treatment. Damage to several office building roofs in Industrial Park. Additional damage to a Daycare facility at West Airport Drive and Dairy Ashford Road. Roof damage to several residential homes in the Meadows subdivision. Reports of several cars overturned or blown off of road along Airport Drive. A total of 24 tornadoes touched down during this 15 hour period of severe weather in southeastern Texas on November 17, 2003. In addition to these tornadoes, a major flood developed over Harris and surrounding counties during the middle of this tornadic outbreak. Over 300 homes, along with hundreds of vehicles, were flooded. These tornadic storms developed over parts of Wharton and Matagorda counties shortly after sunrise with the first confirmed tornado occurring just east of El Campo around 9:00 am. Strong 500mb upper level troughing over the western U.S. moved from west to east across the Southern Plains. The polar jet stream associated with this 500 millibar trough surged into west Texas and then curved sharply northeastward into the Central Plains. The sub-tropical jet stream was oriented west to east across deep southern Texas. This jet stream pattern was the impetus to strong lower level convergence due to the enhanced upper level divergence. Low level moisture had substantially increased and was about 200 percent of normal by 6 AM. Vertical wind profiles also showed a great deal of low level wind shear with the greatest shear occurring in the lowest 2000 feet. In addition, these veering wind speeds rapidly increased with height. A focus for the thunderstorm development was provided by a weak low level boundary which was aligned southwest to northeast, or generally along the U.S. Highway 59 corridor. This feature was nearly-stationary and thunderstorms repeatedly developed and moved along this boundary. The axis of heaviest rain was coincident with this boundary.
44.3	1954-04-30	2	30°06'N / 96°58'W	30°08'N / 96°59'W	3.00 Miles	880 Yards	0	2	250K	0	Lee
44.3	1987-11-15	2	30°11'N / 96°57'W		1.50 Miles	200 Yards	0	8	2.5M	0	Lee
44.7	1986-02-05	3	30°02'N / 95°33'W	29°59'N / 95°29'W	5.00 Miles	70 Yards	2	0	25.0M	0	Harris
44.8	1955-05-23	2	29°19'N / 96°05'W		0.50 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Wharton
44.9	1957-03-20	3	30°19'N / 96°55'W	30°23'N / 96°47'W	9.30 Miles	1760 Yards	0	2	25K	0	Lee
45.0	1974-08-29	2	29°47'N / 95°32'W		1.00 Mile	67 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Harris
45.1	1969-04-04	2	30°30'N / 96°38'W	30°35'N / 96°31'W	9.00 Miles	440 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Burleson
45.2	1981-05-09	2	30°27'N / 95°45'W	30°23'N / 95°43'W	5.10 Miles	40 Yards	0	2	25K	0	Montgomery
45.7	1964-06-15	2	29°18'N / 96°06'W		1.50 Miles	20 Yards	0	0	3K	0	Wharton
45.7	1966-04-14	2	29°18'N / 96°06'W		1.00 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Wharton
45.7	1983-05-20	2	30°04'N / 95°34'W	30°04'N / 95°27'W	7.00 Miles	333 Yards	1	5	2.5M	0	Harris
47.2	1998-10-17	2	30°30'N / 96°41'W	30°33'N / 96°41'W	3.50 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	1.5M	0	Burleson
		Brief Description: Two tornadoes touched down in the Caldwell area causing substantial damage. Twenty-two homes were completely destroyed, 37 sustained major damage, and 101 homes with minor damage. Caldwell Middle School also had major damage. Tombstones weighing more than 1000 pounds were unearthed and moved.
47.3	2003-11-17	2	29°38'N / 95°34'W	29°38'N / 95°33'W	0.50 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	300K	0	Fort Bend
		Brief Description: Tornado touched down in the Meadows subdivision in Fort Bend County and traveled into Harris County. One home lost roof with several other homes damaged. A total of 24 tornadoes touched down during this 15 hour period of severe weather in southeastern Texas on November 17, 2003. In addition to these tornadoes, a major flood developed over Harris and surrounding counties during the middle of this tornadic outbreak. Over 300 homes, along with hundreds of vehicles, were flooded. These tornadic storms developed over parts of Wharton and Matagorda counties shortly after sunrise with the first confirmed tornado occurring just east of El Campo around 9:00 am. Strong 500mb upper level troughing over the western U.S. moved from west to east across the Southern Plains. The polar jet stream associated with this 500 millibar trough surged into west Texas and then curved sharply northeastward into the Central Plains. The sub-tropical jet stream was oriented west to east across deep southern Texas. This jet stream pattern was the impetus to strong lower level convergence due to the enhanced upper level divergence. Low level moisture had substantially increased and was about 200 percent of normal by 6 AM. Vertical wind profiles also showed a great deal of low level wind shear with the greatest shear occurring in the lowest 2000 feet. In addition, these veering wind speeds rapidly increased with height. A focus for the thunderstorm development was provided by a weak low level boundary which was aligned southwest to northeast, or generally along the U.S. Highway 59 corridor. This feature was nearly-stationary and thunderstorms repeatedly developed and moved along this boundary. The axis of heaviest rain was coincident with this boundary.
47.3	1970-10-23	2	29°18'N / 96°00'W		1.20 Miles	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Wharton
48.1	1954-04-30	2	30°38'N / 96°20'W	30°39'N / 96°19'W	1.90 Miles	67 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Brazos
48.3	2003-11-17	2	29°37'N / 95°33'W	29°37'N / 95°33'W	0.50 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	500K	0	Harris
		Brief Description: Tornado touched down in the Meadows subdivision in Fort Bend County and traveled into Harris County. Tornado moved over the intersection of West Bellfort and Kirkwood. Numerous apartments lost roofs in the extensive SW Village Apartment Complex damage. A total of 24 tornadoes touched down during this 15 hour period of severe weather in southeastern Texas on November 17, 2003. In addition to these tornadoes, a major flood developed over Harris and surrounding counties during the middle of this tornadic outbreak. Over 300 homes, along with hundreds of vehicles, were flooded. These tornadic storms developed over parts of Wharton and Matagorda counties shortly after sunrise with the first confirmed tornado occurring just east of El Campo around 9:00 am. Strong 500mb upper level troughing over the western U.S. moved from west to east across the Southern Plains. The polar jet stream associated with this 500 millibar trough surged into west Texas and then curved sharply northeastward into the Central Plains. The sub-tropical jet stream was oriented west to east across deep southern Texas. This jet stream pattern was the impetus to strong lower level convergence due to the enhanced upper level divergence. Low level moisture had substantially increased and was about 200 percent of normal by 6 AM. Vertical wind profiles also showed a great deal of low level wind shear with the greatest shear occurring in the lowest 2000 feet. In addition, these veering wind speeds rapidly increased with height. A focus for the thunderstorm development was provided by a weak low level boundary which was aligned southwest to northeast, or generally along the U.S. Highway 59 corridor. This feature was nearly-stationary and thunderstorms repeatedly developed and moved along this boundary. The axis of heaviest rain was coincident with this boundary.
48.7	1983-05-20	2	29°50'N / 95°32'W	29°56'N / 95°22'W	12.00 Miles	333 Yards	1	7	2.5M	0	Harris
49.2	1953-12-02	2	30°38'N / 96°29'W		0.20 Mile	67 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Brazos
49.3	1967-09-20	3	29°27'N / 96°51'W		2.00 Miles	167 Yards	0	3	25K	0	Lavaca
49.6	1970-10-23	2	29°18'N / 95°54'W		1.50 Miles	27 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Wharton

* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.