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Hazard, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Harrison precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68844. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hazard quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,106 feet above sea level.

Hazard within Sherman County

Population over time

2 figures

Hazard fell from 70 to 57 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.

YearPeople Change
201070
202057-13 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hazard between 2008 and 2018, burning about 658 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
30 March 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Storms near this place

32 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazard in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2019FloodHazard$2,000,000no account filed
June 2022HailHazard$1,000,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindHazard$150,000Wind gusts estimated near 80 MPH resulted in a house suffering window damage from flying debris, with a children outdoor playhouse being flipped on its side. Several large trees were dragged across the owner's property. A pole barn was also destroyed, with 6x6 poles snapped and debris spread from southwest to northeast across the property.
July 2023HailHazard$100,000Tennis ball to baseball size hail was reported. Storm chaser reported a broken windshield.
September 1996Tornado (F0)Hazard$40,000no account filed
August 2007HailHazard$25,000no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHazard$20,000A three-story barn was destroyed, along with other nearby outbuildings. The time of damage is estimated from radar data.
May 1998HailHazard$20,000no account filed
October 2023Tornado (EF0)Hazard$15,000A brief tornado occurred east of Hazard. Damage at a farmstead included damage to gutters and fascia on the west side of the home, and significant damage to a large tree on the property. Leaves and debris were smattered on the east side of the house. Minor tree occurred as the tornado moved east, but the tornado apparently quickly lifted in a nearby field.
June 2008HailHazard$5,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHazard$5,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindHazard$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHazard$2,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in several downed tree limbs of six to eight inches in diameter.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHazard-A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles west-southwest of Hazard.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHazard-Thunderstorm winds downed a tree in Loomis and blew down large tree limbs at Hazard. Just west of Loomis, thunderstorm winds damaged a grain bin, a barn and another outbuilding and also flipped over a hay trailer. Heavy rain and small hail combined with the wind to damage the corn crop.
April 2025HailHazard-no account filed
June 2024HailHazard-no account filed
July 2022HailHazard-no account filed
June 2021HailHazard-no account filed
June 2018HailHazard-no account filed
July 2015HailHazard-no account filed
May 2011HailHazard-no account filed
July 2010HailHazard-no account filed
July 2009HailHazard-no account filed
July 2009HailHazard-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHazard-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudHazard-no account filed
May 2004HailHazard-no account filed
September 2003HailHazard-no account filed
May 2002HailHazard-no account filed
May 2002HailHazard-no account filed
June 2001HailHazard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sherman County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Litchfield6.1 miles10
Rockville13.3 miles12
Loup City14.1 miles12
Ashton18.6 miles12

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 HazardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2250557The 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 829896. 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.