Storms of 2025
Every storm the National Weather Service filed in 2025, month by month, kind by kind and state by state. 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.
2025 on the map
The 600 most significant episodes of 2025, 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
The year
- Events
- 72,360
- Deaths
- 889
- Injuries
- 1,331
- Damage
- $4.8 billion
- Episodes
- 9,846
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 month
By kind of event
Deaths, injuries and damage are counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 21,807 | 28 | 72 | $118 million |
| Hail | 9,205 | 7 | 60 | $82 million |
| Flash Flood | 5,393 | 192 | 55 | $1.1 billion |
| High Wind | 4,603 | 8 | 6 | $8.7 million |
| Winter Weather | 4,436 | 18 | 98 | $854,000 |
| Drought | 3,283 | 0 | 0 | $40 million |
| Winter Storm | 3,070 | 29 | 36 | $4.2 million |
| Heat | 2,864 | 163 | 52 | |
| Flood | 2,261 | 9 | 15 | $72 million |
| Marine Thunderstorm Wind | 2,126 | 0 | 1 | $7,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 1,804 | 13 | 3 | $2.0 million |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 1,731 | 6 | 0 | $11,000 |
| Tornado | 1,591 | 121 | 307 | $2.3 billion |
| Excessive Heat | 1,439 | 90 | 326 | |
| Strong Wind | 1,116 | 5 | 3 | $675,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 1,065 | 21 | 1 | |
| Dense Fog | 632 | 8 | 9 | $69,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 632 | 0 | 0 | $24,000 |
| Blizzard | 568 | 4 | 21 | $142,000 |
| Wildfire | 350 | 64 | 51 | $983 million |
| Dust Storm | 320 | 16 | 65 | $3.0 million |
| Lightning | 288 | 8 | 57 | $4.2 million |
| Frost/Freeze | 276 | 0 | 0 | |
| Coastal Flood | 268 | 1 | 4 | $2.5 million |
| Funnel Cloud | 185 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 163 | 0 | 12 | $2.6 million |
| Debris Flow | 163 | 4 | 2 | $50 million |
| Ice Storm | 153 | 1 | 4 | $13 million |
| Waterspout | 149 | 0 | 0 | |
| Marine High Wind | 83 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rip Current | 72 | 40 | 46 | |
| High Surf | 55 | 15 | 12 | $540,000 |
| Astronomical Low Tide | 51 | 0 | 0 | |
| Avalanche | 34 | 11 | 7 | $315,000 |
| Marine Hail | 25 | 0 | 0 | |
| Marine Tropical Storm | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sneakerwave | 15 | 4 | 1 | |
| Sleet | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Freezing Fog | 11 | 0 | 3 | |
| Tropical Storm | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tsunami | 10 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Marine Strong Wind | 6 | 3 | 1 | $4,000 |
| Storm Surge/Tide | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Marine Dense Fog | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Depression | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dust Devil | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Seiche | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lakeshore Flood | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 4, 2025
- Wildfire in California, January 7 to 31, 2025
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 16 to 17, 2025
- Excessive Heat in Nevada, June 9 to 10, 2025
- Heat in Arizona, August 9 to 13, 2025
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 11 to 12, 2025
- Excessive Heat in Nevada, June 18 to 19, 2025
- Heat in Nevada, June 27 to 30, 2025
- Heat in Arizona, July 11 to 14, 2025
- Heat in Arizona, July 1 to 4, 2025
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Tennessee, April 2 to 3, 2025
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in West Virginia, June 14, 2025
- Heat in Arizona, July 15 to 19, 2025
- Excessive Heat in Arizona, August 6 to 8, 2025
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Kansas, March 14, 2025
- Excessive Heat in Nevada, June 15, 2025
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in California, June 19 to 21, 2025
- Excessive Heat in Arizona, August 20 to 22, 2025
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, March 14 to 15, 2025
- Heavy Snow in Louisiana, January 21, 2025
- Heat in Nevada, June 1 to 4, 2025
- Excessive Heat in Arizona, June 18 to 20, 2025
- Excessive Heat in Nevada, July 14, 2025
- Excessive Heat in Arizona, August 2 to 5, 2025
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Carolina, July 6 to 7, 2025
The costliest
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 16, 2025
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Illinois, August 17, 2025
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 4, 2025
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, July 25 to 26, 2025
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Wisconsin, August 9 to 13, 2025
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, March 27 to 30, 2025
- Wildfire in Washington, September 1 to 30, 2025
- Wildfire in Washington, October 1 to 19, 2025
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 9 to 10, 2025
- Wildfire in Washington, September 1 to 30, 2025
- Wildfire in Washington, October 1 to 30, 2025
- Wildfire and Dust Storm in Oklahoma, March 14 to 31, 2025
- Wildfire in California, September 2 to 13, 2025
- Debris Flow and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, July 8, 2025
- Wildfire in Colorado, July 10 to 31, 2025
- Wildfire in Colorado, August 1 to 31, 2025
- Wildfire in Colorado, September 1 to 2, 2025
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Carolina, July 6 to 7, 2025
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, March 14 to 15, 2025
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 1 to 5, 2025
- Flooding and Strong Wind in Montana, December 10 to 12, 2025
- Wildfire in Utah, June 19 to 27, 2025
- Wildfire in Washington, August 29 to 31, 2025
- Wildfire in Washington, September 1 to 14, 2025
- Drought in Missouri, November 1 to 30, 2025
By state
Events filed in each state in 2025.
- Alabama2,302
- Alaska247
- American Samoa93
- Arizona896
- Arkansas1,369
- California1,689
- Colorado1,836
- Connecticut207
- Delaware106
- District of Columbia34
- Florida948
- Georgia1,697
- Guam33
- Hawaii126
- Idaho512
- Illinois2,702
- Indiana1,589
- Iowa1,642
- Kansas2,097
- Kentucky2,099
- Louisiana1,188
- Maine491
- Maryland946
- Massachusetts335
- Michigan816
- Minnesota1,833
- Mississippi1,671
- Missouri2,757
- Montana1,432
- Nebraska1,828
- Nevada447
- New Hampshire198
- New Jersey660
- New Mexico1,344
- New York2,093
- North Carolina1,679
- North Dakota1,070
- Ohio1,616
- Oklahoma2,892
- Oregon213
- Pennsylvania2,249
- Puerto Rico440
- Rhode Island25
- South Carolina889
- South Dakota2,400
- Tennessee2,343
- Texas5,641
- U.S. Virgin Islands4
- Utah394
- Vermont378
- Virginia2,632
- Washington196
- West Virginia2,187
- Wisconsin1,476
- Wyoming963
Coastal and lake waters
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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.