California

Storm History: Mendocino County, California

86 episodes, 352 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mendocino 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
352
Deaths
9
Injuries
2
Damage
$91 million
Episodes
86

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
Flood14510$1.5 million
Heavy Snow8000$23 million
Winter Storm5300$49,000
High Wind1500$1.7 million
Winter Weather1301
Debris Flow1300$13,000
Tornado700$3,000
Heavy Rain700$8.5 million
Flash Flood600
Hail400
Wildfire381$56 million
Coastal Flood200
Thunderstorm Wind100
Funnel Cloud100
Waterspout100
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.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Mendocino CountyEvery warning in Mendocino 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.