Storm History: Mendocino County, California
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flood | 145 | 1 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| Heavy Snow | 80 | 0 | 0 | $23 million |
| Winter Storm | 53 | 0 | 0 | $49,000 |
| High Wind | 15 | 0 | 0 | $1.7 million |
| Winter Weather | 13 | 0 | 1 | |
| Debris Flow | 13 | 0 | 0 | $13,000 |
| Tornado | 7 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 7 | 0 | 0 | $8.5 million |
| Flash Flood | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 3 | 8 | 1 | $56 million |
| Coastal Flood | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Waterspout | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Avalanche | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Wildfire, October 8, 2017
- Wildfire, September 12, 2021
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2017
- Heavy Rain, February 15, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 17, 2017
- High Wind, February 5, 2017
- Flood, December 14, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2024
- Flood, January 2, 2023
- Debris Flow, February 1, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2021
- Flood, December 26, 2022
- Flood, January 7, 2023
- Flood, February 13, 2025
- High Wind, March 22, 2024
- High Wind, November 1, 2024
- Tornado, December 11, 1983
- High Wind, March 14, 2025
- Heavy Rain, February 6, 2025
- High Wind, November 18, 2024
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
- Flash Flood, January 2, 2026
- Flood, January 1, 2026
- Flood, December 23, 2025
- Flood, December 18, 2025
- Coastal Flood, November 4, 2025
- High Wind, March 14, 2025
- Flood, February 13, 2025
- Heavy Rain, February 6, 2025
- Debris Flow, February 1, 2025
- Flood, January 1, 2025
- Flood, December 28, 2024
- Flood, December 24, 2024
- High Wind, December 12, 2024
- High Wind, November 18, 2024
- High Wind, November 1, 2024
- High Wind, March 22, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2024
- Flood, February 18, 2024
- Flood, February 4, 2024
- Flood, February 1, 2024
- Flood, January 30, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 27, 2023
- Avalanche, March 9, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2023
- Winter Weather, March 4, 2023
- Tornado, February 27, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2023
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2023
- Flood, January 14, 2023
- Flood, January 7, 2023
- Flood, January 2, 2023
- Flood, December 26, 2022
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2022
- Heavy Rain, September 21, 2022
- Winter Weather, April 10, 2022
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2021
- Hail, December 13, 2021
- Wildfire, September 12, 2021
- Heavy Snow, March 8, 2021
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2021
- Winter Weather, April 4, 2020
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 2020
- Heavy Snow, January 15, 2020
- Flood, February 24, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2019
- Flood, January 16, 2019
- Flood, January 16, 2019
- High Wind, January 5, 2019
- Flash Flood, October 3, 2018
- Winter Weather, April 11, 2018
- Flash Flood, April 5, 2018
- Flood, March 22, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 18, 2018
- Tornado, January 25, 2018
- Wildfire, October 8, 2017
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2017
- Heavy Rain, February 15, 2017
- High Wind, February 5, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 17, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2017
- Flood, December 14, 2016
- Heavy Rain, June 9, 2005
- Wildfire, September 3, 2003
- Waterspout, January 25, 2001
- Flood, March 24, 1999
- Tornado, December 5, 1998
- Funnel Cloud, November 8, 1998
- Flood, February 21, 1998
- Flood, February 19, 1998
- Flood, February 2, 1998
- Flood, January 25, 1997
- Flood, January 22, 1997
- Flood, December 29, 1996
- Hail, September 21, 1986
- Tornado, December 11, 1983
- Hail, September 15, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 3, 1960
- Tornado, February 3, 1958
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.