California

Storm History: Humboldt County, California

145 episodes, 762 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Humboldt 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
762
Deaths
13
Injuries
37
Damage
$51 million
Episodes
145

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.

Open the live radar over Humboldt County

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
Flood20716$3.2 million
Heavy Snow183019$39 million
Winter Storm14611$90,000
Winter Weather5300
High Wind5100$4.7 million
Hail2104$9,000
Flash Flood2101$207,000
Tornado1600$3,000
Coastal Flood1200$500
Thunderstorm Wind1111$2,000
Heavy Rain600$3.5 million
Debris Flow600$9,000
Funnel Cloud500
Strong Wind500$8,000
High Surf412
Sneakerwave321
Waterspout200
Rip Current240
Wildfire200
Storm Surge/Tide222
Avalanche200$1.0 million
Lightning100
Dense Fog110

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Humboldt County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Humboldt CountyEvery warning in Humboldt 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.