Lemoore, California
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lemoore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93245. The Survey maps it on the Lemoore quadrangle. 27,038 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1927 to 1993The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresLemoore grew from 24,531 to 27,038 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 24,531 | |
| 2020 | 27,038 | +2,507 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1927 USGS Lemoore quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lemoore quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS Lemoore quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Visalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
46 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Lemoore between 1992 and 2018, burning about 129 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | not named |
| 3 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 26 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | not named |
| 8 July 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 July 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | not named |
| 3 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 27 July 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 22 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemoore in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 4 flood, 4 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2010 | Flood | Lemoore | $75,000 | Heavy rain caused widespread urban and poor drainage flooding on the morning of the 29th across much of the San Joaquin Valley. Especially hard hit were the metro areas of Fresno, Visalia, and Bakersfield, and the adjacent foothills. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lemoore | $50,000 | Afternoon convective activity on the 14th provided wind gusts to 40 MPH at 1610 PST damaging powerlines and dropping service to 1800 electric customers in the Lemoore area. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lemoore | $1,000 | A trained spotter reported that thunderstorm wind gusts blew down his fence. |
| November 2014 | Heavy Rain | Lemoore | - | An apartment roof collapsed due to heavy rain. Reported by local media via twitter. Rain estimated 0.75 inches from combination of nearby ASOS and COCORAHS reports. |
| May 1998 | Flood | Lemoore | - | Early convective activity on this day led to heavy rain...enough to cause street flooding in East Kings County. No damage reported. |
| March 1998 | Flood | Lemoore | - | Small hail (less than 1/2") and torrential rain accompanying a late afternoon thunderstorm led to street flooding in downtown Lemoore around 1600 PST. |
| March 1998 | Flood | Lemoore | - | A thunderstorm brought very heavy rain to the city of Lemoore. The amount of water overwhelmed the city drain system and water went gutter to gutter across downtown business area streets. Reports of 1.78" of rain occurred with the thunderstorm's passage. |
| March 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Lemoore | - | Powerful thunderstorms rolled through the central San Joaquin Valley spawning a funnel cloud and a tornado along with damaging hail. The funnel cloud was reported by two weather spotters. The tornado was reported to have touched down for only about 15 seconds and no damage was reported. The hail and strong winds caused $6 million in crop damage. Almond trees were toppled and there was serious damage to citrus crops, strawberries, and grapes. |
| March 2006 | Heavy Rain | Lemoore | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Lightning | Lemoore | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Lemoore | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Lemoore | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Lemoore | - | no account filed |
| December 2003 | Heavy Rain | Lemoore | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cimarron | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Orion (historical) | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Rossi | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Halls Corner | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Armona | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Cuneo (historical) | 4.5 miles | 21 | |
| Grangeville | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Lethent (historical) | 5.4 miles | 19 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Lemoore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q986940 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1660905. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.










