Arizona, 2025Lightning Strike in Arizona, October 22, 2025
October 22, 2025 · NWS FGZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone
A weak, cut-off low pressure system moved over Arizona bringing numerous showers and thunderstorms across the area.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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 this ground
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
A weak, cut-off low pressure system moved over Arizona bringing numerous showers and thunderstorms across the area.
Lightning, Coconino
- When
- October 22, 10:37 AM MST
- Where
- Coconino County, 10.14 mi W of Sunset Crater
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 35.350, -111.680
Law Enforcement reported 2 hikers injured from a lightning strike on Humphreys Peak. Time of event estimated on radar.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1293816.