Arizona

Storm History: La Paz County, Arizona

214 episodes, 388 events since 1983

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in La Paz 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
388
Deaths
29
Injuries
5
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
214

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
Flash Flood17020$14 million
Excessive Heat115230
Thunderstorm Wind5105$1.2 million
Hail1500$160,000
Flood900$102,000
Dust Storm800
Heavy Rain700$6,000
Tornado500$20,000
Heat440
Lightning200$12,000
Strong Wind200$24,000

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

More

Tornadoes in La Paz CountyEvery warning in La Paz 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.