California

Storm History: El Dorado County, California

791 episodes, 1,302 events since 1972

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in El Dorado County, California: 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
1,302
Deaths
38
Injuries
21
Damage
$533 million
Episodes
791

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
Heavy Snow74304$550,000
High Wind15910$1.8 million
Winter Storm5932$475,000
Flood5521$5.5 million
Winter Weather4930$110,000
Avalanche42154$50,000
Heavy Rain3422$100,000
Debris Flow3310$3,000
Tornado3200$1.3 million
Flash Flood2600$22 million
Blizzard2125$30,000
Hail1600$286,000
Strong Wind1110$301,000
Wildfire603$500 million
Thunderstorm Wind580
Dense Fog500
Dense Smoke300
Cold/Wind Chill100
Funnel Cloud100
Lake-Effect Snow100

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 El Dorado CountyEvery warning in El Dorado County since 1986Every county in California

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.