New Mexico

Storms in New Mexico in 2021

1,300 events in 182 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in New Mexico in 2021, 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 2021 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

Open the live radar over New Mexico

The year

Events
1,300
Deaths
6
Injuries
17
Damage
$24 million
Episodes
182

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
Drought63400
High Wind18500$20,000
Hail12100$594,000
Thunderstorm Wind11100$155,000
Heavy Snow10300$50,000
Flash Flood7852$6.1 million
Tornado1610$4.8 million
Flood1100$150,000
Winter Weather900
Winter Storm7013$12 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Cold/Wind Chill400
Wildfire402$420,000
Blizzard300$40,000
Funnel Cloud200
Excessive Heat200
Heavy Rain200
Strong Wind200
Lightning100
Dust Storm100

Every episode, month by month

January 2021

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March 2021

April 2021

May 2021

June 2021

July 2021

August 2021

September 2021

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November 2021

December 2021

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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.