Kentucky

Storms in Kentucky in 2025

2,099 events in 201 episodes, still being filed

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Kentucky in 2025, 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.

Kentucky in 2025 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

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The year

Events
2,099
Deaths
36
Injuries
28
Damage
$33 million
Episodes
201

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
Thunderstorm Wind67701$628,000
Hail26200$2.4 million
Flash Flood20721$4.9 million
Flood16010$1.0 million
Dense Fog13800
Heavy Snow12600$30,000
Winter Weather10113$25,000
Winter Storm8110$39,000
Strong Wind6100$63,000
Cold/Wind Chill5110
Excessive Heat5000
Frost/Freeze4300
Tornado392923$22 million
Heat3500
Drought3500
Ice Storm1100$1.7 million
Funnel Cloud700
Debris Flow600$27,000
Lightning300
High Wind200$14,000
Heavy Rain200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill110
Dust Devil100

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.