More than 100 people died and many others remained missing after flash floods swept through the Hill Country region in Texas over the 2025 Fourth of July weekend.
The floods were the deadliest from inland flooding in the U.S. since 1976, when Colorado's Big Thompson Canyon flooded and killed 144 people, Bob Henson, a meteorologist with Yale Climate Connections, told The Associated Press.
Snopes fact-checkers came across multiple claims about the catastrophe in Texas, ranging from heartwarming rescue stories to a rumor that a weather modification technique called cloud seeding was to blame for the deadly flooding. We also researched claims that U.S. President Donald Trump's National Weather Service staffing cuts negatively impacted the flood response, that a Houston pediatrician lost her job over Facebook comments about the Texas floods and that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent rescue teams to Texas.
Below is a collection of rumors we've investigated about the July 2025 floods in Texas.
