Amarillo Auto Insurance (TX)

Amarillo, Texas is a city of around 200,000 and is the fourteenth largest city in the state and the largest in the Texas Panhandle. Amarillo occupies an area of around 90 square miles and is the seat of Potter County. The city’s economy relies heavily on the meatpacking industry where about one-quarter of the nation’s beef supply is processed.

Amarillo’s streets are designed after a grid system while the area is accessible via Interstate 27 and Interstate 40. Before I-40 was complete in 1968, US-66 (Route 66) was the Amarillo’s major east-west route. The city’s fatal accident rate ranks on par or even above the state average. Public transportation is provided by Amarillo City Transit (ACT) with bus service on fixed routes as well as paratransit services.

Amarillo is within a temperate semi-arid climate and experiences cold winters with occasional blizzards and hot summers with low to moderate humidity. Annual precipitation is pretty scant with most of that coming in late spring and early summer. The region can also see violent thunderstorms with severe thunder and lightning storms, torrential rain, hail, and tornadoes.