Arizona

Storms in Arizona in 2023

1,012 events in 203 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Arizona in 2023, 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.

Arizona in 2023 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 Arizona

The year

Events
1,012
Deaths
771
Injuries
21
Damage
$20 million
Episodes
203

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
Excessive Heat2866421
Thunderstorm Wind16105$974,000
Heat941180
Flash Flood8900$16 million
Heavy Snow85015$7,000
Flood7060$197,000
High Wind7000
Wildfire2700$530,000
Dust Storm2300$281,000
Hail2300$1.6 million
Drought2000
Winter Storm1200$70,000
Dense Fog1100
Strong Wind800$12,000
Heavy Rain700
Tornado500$100,000
Lightning500
Winter Weather500
Cold/Wind Chill450$5,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Frost/Freeze200
Dust Devil100$5,000
Funnel Cloud100

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.