Colorado

Storms in Colorado in 2010

1,756 events in 323 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Colorado in 2010, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Colorado in 2010 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The year

Events
1,756
Deaths
9
Injuries
44
Damage
$319 million
Episodes
323

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail59605$2.4 million
Winter Storm28703
Winter Weather281021
Drought11400
Thunderstorm Wind11100$2.1 million
High Wind8500$116,000
Tornado7102$94 million
Flash Flood4400$351,000
Avalanche26710$202,000
Dense Fog2600
Lightning1912$61,000
Wildfire1601$219 million
Funnel Cloud1500
Heavy Rain1400
Blizzard1310
Frost/Freeze1200
Heavy Snow1100
Debris Flow700$1.0 million
Flood400$155,000
Strong Wind300$46,000
Dense Smoke100

Every episode, month by month

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.