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Huffman, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77336. The Survey maps it on the Huffman quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Huffman within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Huffman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 397 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 865
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 857
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 942
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.8 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE101, E103
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE103
9 July 1996Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE103

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huffman in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
November 2011Tornado (EF1)Huffman$100,000Extensive damage along Hidden Lakes Drive in Kingwood. Numerous trees were snapped our uprooted. Numerous homes had broken windows and partial roof damage. Tornado was rated EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
May 2019Flash FloodHuffman$50,000Kingwood Drive was flooded and impassable with reports of water in vehicles.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindHuffman$25,000Trees down in northeast Harris Co. with tree down on car.
February 1999HailHuffman$20,000no account filed
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Huffman$10,000Tornado moved through residential area near Huffman with damage mainly along Waterway Street. A few trees were uprooted, many branches down.
December 2005Tornado (F0)Huffman$10,000F0 Tornado caused roof and tree damage.
February 2003HailHuffman$5,000Golfball sized hail.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHuffman$3,000A trailer was flipped over at an RV park.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindHuffman$500SkyWarn spotter reported trees blown down on the east side of Lake Houston.
May 2025HailHuffman-An emergency manager reported 1.25 inch hail near Huffman at FM 1960 and FM2100.
May 2025HailHuffman-A member of the public reported 1 inch hail near Kingwood through mPING.
May 2025HailHuffman-A member of the public reported 1 inch hail east of Kingwood through mPING.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHuffman-Mesonet station LHFT2 in Lake Houston at FM 1960 measured a 58 mph wind gust.
December 2024Tornado (EF0)Huffman-Video from public showed a waterspout making landfall from Lake Houston. Another video from public showed this tornado on ground, moving through in Huffman. No damage was observed by survey teams. As a result, wind speeds were estimated to be 60 mph, consistent with EF0 levels.
December 2024Funnel CloudHuffman-A member of the public reported a funnel cloud east of Kingwood.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHuffman-Some trees were downed and a fence was damaged.
September 2019Flash FloodHuffman-Sheriffs office reports high water vehicles sent to homes on Meyer Road for rescues.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Huffman Oaks0.3 miles18
Lakewood Heights1.6 miles18
Lakeside Manor1.9 miles18
Shorewood2.2 miles18
Hidden Echo2.6 miles18
Happy Hideaway2.9 miles15
Pines of Atascocita3.3 miles19
Heathergate3.7 miles15

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 HuffmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5929554The 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 1338230. 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.