Storm History: Lake County, California
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lake 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
- 63
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 4
- Damage
- $8.8 million
- Episodes
- 35
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flood | 23 | 1 | 1 | $8.0 million |
| Debris Flow | 10 | 0 | 0 | $45,000 |
| Winter Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | $700,000 |
| Flash Flood | 6 | 0 | 3 | $30,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 5 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Tornado | 3 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Avalanche | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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
- Flood, January 1, 2026
- Flood, December 23, 2025
- Flood, February 13, 2025
- Debris Flow, February 1, 2025
- High Wind, November 18, 2024
- Heavy Rain, March 6, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2024
- Flood, February 18, 2024
- Flood, February 4, 2024
- Avalanche, March 9, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2023
- Winter Weather, March 4, 2023
- Tornado, February 27, 2023
- Flood, January 7, 2023
- Flood, January 2, 2023
- Flood, December 26, 2022
- Heavy Snow, November 7, 2022
- Hail, May 7, 2022
- Winter Weather, December 27, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2021
- Flood, December 6, 2019
- Flood, May 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 12, 2019
- Flash Flood, October 2, 2018
- Flood, February 6, 2017
- Tornado, January 6, 2017
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2014
- Flood, January 1, 2006
- Heavy Rain, December 17, 2005
- Heavy Rain, February 4, 2000
- Heavy Rain, January 18, 1998
- Heavy Rain, January 12, 1998
- Flash Flood, January 25, 1997
- Hail, September 25, 1990
More
Tornadoes in Lake CountyEvery warning in Lake 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.