Minnesota

Storms in Minnesota in 2017

1,314 events in 165 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Minnesota in 2017, 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.

Minnesota in 2017 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
1,314
Deaths
7
Injuries
30
Damage
$24 million
Episodes
165

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
Hail44000$2.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind40000$20,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill11401
Winter Storm7300
Tornado7104$17 million
Winter Weather4219$31,000
Heavy Snow4000
High Wind3201$13,000
Blizzard2310$3.5 million
Flash Flood1900$85,000
Cold/Wind Chill12214
Heavy Rain1200
Flood1100$16,000
Funnel Cloud1000
Lightning400$220,000
Drought300
Strong Wind200
Ice Storm200
Lake-Effect Snow100
Rip Current121
Dense Fog110
Lakeshore Flood100

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.