Arizona, 2025

Lightning 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.

Where it happened

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

The toll

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS FGZ wrote it up.

A weak, cut-off low pressure system moved over Arizona bringing numerous showers and thunderstorms across the area.

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:36 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.

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.

What these are

Lightning
A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Arizona in 2025Every state in 2025This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, October 2025

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1293816.