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Comfort, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Comfort census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78013. It stands on Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Comfort quadrangle. 2,211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,427 feet above sea level.

Comfort within Kendall County

On record in Comfort

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Comfort fell from 2,363 to 2,211 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
20102,363
20202,211-152 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

79 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Comfort between 2006 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service609 FM 289
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service100 BLK OF SCHLADOER
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH 10 WB 528 MM
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1621 BURN PILE
17 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service519 MM EB IH10
16 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1621 ELECTRICAL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kendall County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comfort in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 hail, 6 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2016Flash FloodComfort1 killedA young lady drowned on Cypress Creek near the intersection of Highway 27 and Water Street in Comfort. The car was swept off into the creek due to heavy rain. Two occupants made it to safety. One other occupant drowned and was recovered several miles downstream.
July 2025Flash FloodComfort$5,000,000There was catastrophic flash flooding along the Guadalupe River after around ten inches of rain fell in approximately four hours over the headwaters of the river. The flood wave moved downstream into Kendall County. Water from the Guadalupe backed up Cypress Creek in Comfort. Water was 5.6 feet above the bridge on 7th St in Comfort.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindComfort$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew roofs off homes in the Comfort area.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindComfort$80,000Damaging winds knocked over several trees and damaged a home just south of Comfort in a path that ran from north to south. The winds tore a patio roof off the house, lifted it up over the roof and deposited it on the south side of the house. Some of the trees damaged in the area had diameters of over 12 inches. The winds were preceded by heavy rain, and followed by hail and a small tornado.
October 1993HailComfort$50,000Golf ball to baseball-size hail was reported in Comfort. The County Sheriff's Office reported a large signs blown down and wind damage to a gas pump in Boerne. Several cars were damaged across the County.
October 2025Thunderstorm WindComfort$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that tore some metal roofing and solar panels off a house near Comfort.
October 1993HailComfort$5,000Golf ball to baseball-size hail was reported in Comfort. The County Sheriff's Office reported a large signs blown down and wind damage to a gas pump in Boerne. Several cars were damaged across the County.
March 2026HailComfort-A thunderstorm produced up to lime sized hail in Comfort.
April 2023HailComfort-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Comfort.
April 2022HailComfort-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Comfort.
April 2022HailComfort-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Comfort.
April 2009Flash FloodComfort-There were reports of several low waters crossings being flooded along Highway 473.
March 2007Flash FloodComfort-A general 2 to 3 inch rain over northern Kendall County resulted in numerous rural roads cut by flash flooding through the afternoon. FM473 and FM1376 were closed near Sisterdale.
February 2005HailComfort-The hail broke windows in homes and vehicles and damaged the bodies of vehicles in the area.
May 2005Flash FloodComfort-Between 1 and 2 inches of rain fell between Comfort and Sisterdale, with up to 4 inch totals just south of Comfort. FM473 was closed due to flash flooding east of Comfort. FM1376 was closed south of Sisterdale.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Comfort-An NWS survey found evidence of a tornado that struck at the southeast end of the wind damage area in Kendall County, about one mile south of the Waring exit off IH10. Trees at one home in this area again showed severe damage with many broken off above the ground and others blown over. However in this one case the tree limbs and trees were not oriented toward the southeast but instead were generally laid down in all different directions. The home within 50 yards of the damage area suffered no damage at all. This change in orientation, along with the very narrow area, the well defined nature of the path, and stronger level of damage, led the team to conclude that the damage was caused by a small and short-lived tornado. The tornado was rated as F0.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindComfort-Widespread severe damage from the line of thunderstorms was also found along SH27 between Center Point and Comfort in Kendall County. Large tree limbs were knocked out of trees and healthy mesquite trees of up to 8 inches in diameter were broken off above the ground or blown over completely. This level of damage continued eastward to just beyond Comfort. It appeared to stretch southward from this portion of SH27 for around 4 miles.
August 2004Flash FloodComfort-Thunderstorms over western Kendall County produced general 1 to 2 inch totals. Highest amounts were near 3 inches between Comfort and Boerne, where several roads, including FM1376 and FM473 were closed due to the flooding.
March 2003Tornado (F0)Comfort-A small tornado developed behind the damaging winds, heavy rain, and large hail, moving southward for three-fourths of a mile, then lifting. It did not appear to have caused any damage
March 1995HailComfort-Sheriff's department reports golf ball-sized hail at Comfort. Shortly afterward, damaging winds knocked down numerous large tree limbs in Boerne.
April 2017HailComfort-no account filed
March 2006HailComfort-no account filed
April 2006HailComfort-no account filed
April 2005HailComfort-no account filed
May 2002HailComfort-no account filed
April 1996HailComfort-no account filed
April 1996HailComfort-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kendall 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
Waring5.5 miles10
Welfare7.0 miles10
Nelson City8.5 miles10
Sisterdale9.8 miles10
Walnut Grove11.3 miles12
Bankersmith11.8 miles11
Ammans Crossing13.4 miles10
Kreutzberg14.1 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 ComfortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q642634The 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 1333183. 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.