Arizona

Storm History: Yuma County, Arizona

262 episodes, 519 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Yuma 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
519
Deaths
0
Injuries
14
Damage
$22 million
Episodes
262

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
Excessive Heat14300
Flash Flood12700$1.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind117012$6.4 million
Hail4000$13 million
Dust Storm3600$718,000
Tornado2301$323,000
Flood1600$80,000
Heavy Rain800$115,000
Dense Fog400
Funnel Cloud200
Dust Devil200$55,000
Lightning101

The deadliest

None recorded.

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Yuma County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Yuma CountyEvery warning in Yuma 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.