Arizona

Storm History: Greenlee County, Arizona

260 episodes, 310 events since 1990

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greenlee County, Arizona: 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
310
Deaths
13
Injuries
2
Damage
$1.2 million
Episodes
260

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
Drought11600
Wildfire3902$115,000
Excessive Heat3970
Flash Flood2800$368,000
Winter Storm2600$15,000
Thunderstorm Wind1200$64,000
Heavy Snow1200
Hail900
Heat750
Flood600$300,000
High Wind600$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200$300,000
Frost/Freeze200
Blizzard100
Strong Wind100$10,000
Winter Weather100
Cold/Wind Chill110
Dust Storm100
Tornado100

The deadliest

The costliest

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

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Greenlee CountyEvery warning in Greenlee County since 1986Every county in Arizona

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.