Alaska

Storm History: Sitka City and Borough, Alaska

28 episodes, 30 events since 2008

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sitka City and Borough, 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
30
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
28

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 eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Flood1600$13 million
High Wind500
Winter Storm400
Flash Flood100$2,000
Heavy Rain100
Dust Devil100$1,000
Heavy Snow100
Thunderstorm Wind100

The deadliest

None recorded.

The costliest

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

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Sitka City and BoroughEvery warning in Sitka City and Borough since 1986Every 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.