Storm History: Bethel Census Area, Alaska

13 episodes, 20 events since 2025

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bethel Census Area, Alaska: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events: 20
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 1
Damage: None recorded
Episodes: 13

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of event	Events	Deaths	Injuries
Blizzard	11	0	0
Wildfire	3	0	0
Flood	3	1	1
Ice Storm	2	0	0
Coastal Flood	1	0	0

The deadliest

Flood, October 11, 20251 death · 1 injured · 87 kt wind · 3 events here

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

None recorded.

Every episode, newest first

Tornadoes in Bethel Census Area Every warning in Bethel Census Area since 1986 Every county in Alaska

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.