New Mexico

Storms in New Mexico in 2017

761 events in 157 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in New Mexico 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.

New Mexico 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
761
Deaths
9
Injuries
20
Damage
$19 million
Episodes
157

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
Hail234010$2.3 million
High Wind18800$75,000
Thunderstorm Wind11531$270,000
Heavy Snow6200$150,000
Flash Flood6120$6.9 million
Winter Storm2101$450,000
Funnel Cloud1700
Heat1611
Tornado1310$8.3 million
Winter Weather700
Cold/Wind Chill600
Heavy Rain500
Flood400$25,000
Wildfire414$131,000
Blizzard300
Lightning200
Strong Wind100
Dust Storm113
Dust Devil100

Every episode, month by month

January 2017

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May 2017

June 2017

July 2017

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September 2017

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November 2017

December 2017

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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.