Recovery continues 1 month after deadly floods in Texas Hill Country

Published on August 5, 2025

One month has passed since some of the deadliest and most destructive flooding in the state’s history took at least 136 lives in the Texas Hill Country over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Of the confirmed dead, 108 were in Kerr County, where the worst flooding occurred, and included 36 children, 27 of whom were attending Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

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