North Carolina

Storms in North Carolina in 2025

1,679 events in 274 episodes, still being filed

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in North Carolina 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.

North Carolina 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
1,679
Deaths
13
Injuries
12
Damage
$47 million
Episodes
274

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 Wind73421$2.1 million
Flash Flood21621$3.2 million
Excessive Heat15200
Hail13900$215,000
Winter Storm10500$400,000
Winter Weather8700
Cold/Wind Chill5500
High Wind3801$288,000
Frost/Freeze3000
Drought2700
Heavy Snow1800$10,000
Tornado1668$41 million
Coastal Flood1200
Lightning1121$100,000
Strong Wind1000
Flood1000$16,000
Rip Current710
Tropical Storm600
Storm Surge/Tide200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Funnel Cloud100
Heavy Rain100
Astronomical Low Tide100

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.