Storm History: Sitka City and Borough, Alaska
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flood | 16 | 0 | 0 | $13 million |
| High Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 1 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dust Devil | 1 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
Every episode, newest first
- High Wind, January 13, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 8, 2026
- High Wind, September 26, 2025
- High Wind, September 22, 2025
- High Wind, September 17, 2025
- High Wind, October 12, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 27, 2024
- Flood, January 28, 2024
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2023
- Flood, June 1, 2023
- Flood, May 31, 2023
- Flood, May 12, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2023
- Flood, May 9, 2022
- Dust Devil, June 12, 2015
- Flood, May 20, 2015
- Flood, May 6, 2014
- Flood, May 20, 2013
- Flood, May 19, 2013
- Flood, May 28, 2012
- Heavy Rain, June 22, 2011
- Flood, May 9, 2009
- Flood, May 7, 2009
- Flood, May 6, 2009
- Flood, May 6, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2008
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.