Rhode Island

Storms in Rhode Island in 2021

72 events in 18 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island

The year

Events
72
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Damage
$2.1 million
Episodes
18

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
Strong Wind1400$6,000
Thunderstorm Wind1400$21,000
High Wind1300$107,000
Tropical Storm800$1.8 million
Heavy Snow700
Flood400$9,000
Winter Storm300$2,000
Hail300
Tornado300$126,000
Flash Flood200$54,000
Rip Current120

Every episode, month by month

February 2021

March 2021

April 2021

June 2021

July 2021

August 2021

September 2021

October 2021

November 2021

December 2021

More

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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.