Colorado

Storms in Colorado in 2015

1,292 events in 288 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Colorado in 2015, 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 2015 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
1,292
Deaths
3
Injuries
27
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
288

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
Hail422014$505,000
Winter Storm21200
Winter Weather18400
Heavy Snow7500
Flash Flood6600$2.6 million
Tornado5700$450,000
Thunderstorm Wind5202$25,000
Dense Fog5000
Drought4900
High Wind3600
Frost/Freeze2300
Flood2000$7.0 million
Funnel Cloud1200
Blizzard900
Avalanche823
Heavy Rain700$10,000
Lightning518
Debris Flow400
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.