Wisconsin

Storms in Wisconsin in 2023

1,325 events in 213 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Wisconsin 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.

Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin

The year

Events
1,325
Deaths
7
Injuries
58
Damage
$8.8 million
Episodes
213

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
Hail27300$1.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind22500$188,000
Drought18000
Winter Storm16613$70,000
Winter Weather157254$339,000
Heavy Snow12400$330,000
Flood5300$689,000
Excessive Heat4600
Heavy Rain2600
Tornado2500$5.4 million
Ice Storm1400
Flash Flood700$111,000
Funnel Cloud600
Blizzard400
Strong Wind400$5,000
Cold/Wind Chill320
Wildfire300$10,000
High Wind301
Heat300
Frost/Freeze100
Rip Current110
Dense Fog110

Every episode, month by month

January 2023

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December 2023

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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.