Emergency vet access in Texas
Of 735 listed veterinary practices in Texas,47 post verified around-the-clock hours across 35 cities, and 28 more offer emergency services without overnight staffing. 18 emergency providers are verified to treat exotic pets. 68 practices treat farm animals or horses.
Updated 2026-09-09. Free to cite with a link. Methodology and limits below.
Every verified 24/7 hospital in Texas
Towns farthest from overnight care
Among Texas towns with at least four listed practices but no 24/7 hospital of their own, the longest hauls to verified overnight care:
- San Angelo — nearest 24/7 hospital is Lubbock Animal Emergency Clinic in Lubbock, 168 mi straight-line (roughly a 3 hr 22 min drive)
- Abilene — nearest 24/7 hospital is I-20 Animal Hospital in Hudson Oaks, 119 mi straight-line (roughly a 2 hr 23 min drive)
- Amarillo — nearest 24/7 hospital is Lubbock Animal Emergency Clinic in Lubbock, 112 mi straight-line (roughly a 2 hr 14 min drive)
- Midland — nearest 24/7 hospital is Lubbock Animal Emergency Clinic in Lubbock, 108 mi straight-line (roughly a 2 hr 10 min drive)
- Wichita Falls — nearest 24/7 hospital is I-20 Animal Hospital in Hudson Oaks, 96 mi straight-line (roughly a 1 hr 55 min drive)
- Texarkana — nearest 24/7 hospital is East Texas Pet Emergency Clinic in Longview, 75 mi straight-line (roughly a 1 hr 30 min drive)
- College Station — nearest 24/7 hospital is Animal Hospital & Emergency Veterinary of Conroe in Conroe, 52 mi straight-line (roughly a 1 hr 3 min drive)
- Kerrville — nearest 24/7 hospital is MissionVet Specialty & Emergency in San Antonio, 45 mi straight-line (roughly a 54 min drive)
Methodology & honest limits
"24/7" means the hospital's own posted hours say so — on-call and emergency-line arrangements do not count, and we audit the claims. Distances are straight-line between town coordinates, not road miles; drive times are estimates, not routing. Our dataset (OpenStreetMap and GeoNames base, plus our own verification and reader corrections) is extensive but not a census: a town can look underserved here because a hospital lacks any web presence. Corrections are verified and applied — report one.
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