California

Storm History: Madera County, California

384 episodes, 913 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Madera 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
913
Deaths
2
Injuries
16
Damage
$81 million
Episodes
384

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 Madera 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
Dense Fog11827$350,000
Debris Flow10800$67,000
Drought10200
Flood10100$8.7 million
Flash Flood8600$5.4 million
Heavy Snow7300
High Wind5900$43,000
Frost/Freeze5400
Excessive Heat3900
Tornado3200$555,000
Heat3200
Winter Storm2400$90,000
Hail2304$11 million
Heavy Rain1700$49 million
Winter Weather1700
Wildfire800$5.1 million
Lightning600$3,000
Thunderstorm Wind400$25,000
Funnel Cloud400
Dust Storm305$500,000
Dust Devil100$500
Strong Wind100
Avalanche100

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 Madera County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Madera CountyEvery warning in Madera 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.