Storm History: Modoc County, California
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Modoc 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
- 465
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $334 million
- Episodes
- 341
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frost/Freeze | 116 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 87 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 75 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 55 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 34 | 1 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Winter Storm | 23 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Blizzard | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 11 | 0 | 0 | $333 million |
| Hail | 8 | 0 | 0 | $60,000 |
| Flash Flood | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 6 | 0 | 0 | $36,000 |
| Avalanche | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 3 | 0 | 0 | $200 |
| Debris Flow | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, January 1, 1997
- Flood, May 8, 2005
- Wildfire, August 1, 2014
- Flood, February 3, 2025
- Hail, June 11, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 1999
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2011
- High Wind, November 16, 2003
- High Wind, February 7, 2008
- High Wind, February 7, 2002
- High Wind, February 7, 2002
- Strong Wind, February 26, 2009
- Strong Wind, March 10, 2011
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
- Strong Wind, April 15, 2026
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 2026
- Avalanche, February 15, 2026
- Avalanche, January 3, 2026
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2025
- Flood, December 21, 2025
- High Wind, November 5, 2025
- High Wind, November 4, 2025
- High Wind, October 25, 2025
- Wildfire, August 11, 2025
- Wildfire, August 1, 2025
- Wildfire, July 24, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 30, 2025
- High Wind, March 27, 2025
- High Wind, March 27, 2025
- High Wind, March 16, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 15, 2025
- High Wind, February 24, 2025
- Flood, February 3, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2025
- High Wind, December 29, 2024
- Wildfire, July 22, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2024
- Wildfire, July 7, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 4, 2024
- Wildfire, June 26, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, June 17, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, June 17, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, June 16, 2024
- Wildfire, May 21, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 28, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2024
- High Wind, December 2, 2023
- Frost/Freeze, September 22, 2023
- Frost/Freeze, June 21, 2023
- High Wind, December 26, 2022
- Wildfire, September 7, 2022
- Frost/Freeze, June 15, 2022
- Frost/Freeze, June 14, 2022
- Frost/Freeze, June 13, 2022
- High Wind, May 5, 2022
- High Wind, April 20, 2022
- High Wind, April 18, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2022
- High Wind, December 11, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2021
- High Wind, October 24, 2021
- Flash Flood, October 22, 2021
- Frost/Freeze, September 29, 2021
- Wildfire, July 4, 2021
- Excessive Heat, June 26, 2021
- Heavy Snow, March 14, 2021
- Winter Weather, December 11, 2020
- High Wind, November 17, 2020
- Wildfire, August 1, 2020
- Wildfire, July 22, 2020
- Frost/Freeze, June 17, 2020
- Frost/Freeze, June 8, 2020
- Heavy Snow, March 17, 2020
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 2020
- High Wind, February 8, 2020
- Heavy Snow, January 15, 2020
- Wildfire, September 5, 2019
- Wildfire, August 1, 2019
- Wildfire, July 28, 2019
- Frost/Freeze, June 9, 2019
- Frost/Freeze, June 8, 2019
- Frost/Freeze, June 6, 2019
- Flood, April 10, 2019
- Flood, April 9, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 8, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2019
- Blizzard, February 9, 2019
- High Wind, January 20, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2019
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2018
- High Wind, December 14, 2018
- Frost/Freeze, September 15, 2018
- Frost/Freeze, September 14, 2018
- Wildfire, August 15, 2018
- Frost/Freeze, June 10, 2018
- Frost/Freeze, June 1, 2018
- Heavy Snow, April 15, 2018
- High Wind, April 15, 2018
- High Wind, April 11, 2018
- Heavy Rain, April 6, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 25, 2018
- High Wind, January 24, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2018
- High Wind, December 19, 2017
- High Wind, November 26, 2017
- Frost/Freeze, September 23, 2017
- Frost/Freeze, September 22, 2017
- Frost/Freeze, September 21, 2017
- Wildfire, August 3, 2017
- Wildfire, August 1, 2017
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2017
- Wildfire, July 23, 2017
- Wildfire, July 13, 2017
- Frost/Freeze, June 14, 2017
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2017
- Flood, February 22, 2017
- High Wind, February 20, 2017
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2017
- High Wind, February 15, 2017
- High Wind, February 9, 2017
- Flood, February 7, 2017
- Flood, February 7, 2017
- High Wind, January 16, 2017
- Blizzard, January 9, 2017
- Flood, January 8, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2017
- Heavy Snow, December 14, 2016
- High Wind, December 8, 2016
- Heavy Snow, December 7, 2016
- High Wind, November 18, 2016
- High Wind, October 15, 2016
- Debris Flow, October 14, 2016
- High Wind, October 13, 2016
- Wildfire, October 1, 2016
- Wildfire, September 17, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, September 5, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, May 28, 2016
- High Wind, March 9, 2016
- High Wind, February 17, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2016
- Heavy Snow, December 23, 2015
- Heavy Snow, December 21, 2015
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2015
- High Wind, December 3, 2015
- Heavy Snow, November 24, 2015
- Frost/Freeze, September 18, 2015
- Frost/Freeze, September 7, 2015
- Frost/Freeze, September 6, 2015
- Wildfire, August 1, 2015
- Wildfire, July 30, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2015
- High Wind, February 8, 2015
- High Wind, February 6, 2015
- Wildfire, February 6, 2015
- High Wind, February 5, 2015
- High Wind, December 11, 2014
- High Wind, October 24, 2014
- High Wind, October 14, 2014
- Frost/Freeze, October 2, 2014
- Frost/Freeze, October 1, 2014
- Wildfire, August 1, 2014
- Wildfire, July 30, 2014
- Wildfire, July 3, 2014
- Wildfire, July 1, 2014
- Frost/Freeze, June 17, 2014
- Frost/Freeze, June 14, 2014
- High Wind, February 15, 2014
- High Wind, February 15, 2014
- High Wind, February 12, 2014
- Frost/Freeze, September 27, 2013
- Frost/Freeze, September 26, 2013
- Frost/Freeze, September 19, 2013
- Frost/Freeze, September 18, 2013
- Frost/Freeze, May 31, 2013
- Frost/Freeze, May 30, 2013
- Frost/Freeze, May 23, 2013
- Frost/Freeze, May 22, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 18, 2013
- Blizzard, December 20, 2012
- High Wind, December 20, 2012
- Debris Flow, December 2, 2012
- High Wind, December 1, 2012
- High Wind, December 1, 2012
- High Wind, November 28, 2012
- High Wind, November 18, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, October 9, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, October 8, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, October 7, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, October 6, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, October 5, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, October 4, 2012
- Wildfire, September 5, 2012
- Wildfire, August 21, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, June 10, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, June 9, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, June 6, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, May 18, 2012
- Hail, April 23, 2012
- Heavy Snow, April 5, 2012
- High Wind, March 13, 2012
- High Wind, March 12, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 28, 2012
- Wildfire, July 15, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2011
- High Wind, March 13, 2011
- Strong Wind, March 10, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 15, 2011
- High Wind, February 14, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 28, 2010
- Heavy Snow, November 22, 2010
- Winter Storm, November 19, 2010
- Frost/Freeze, September 24, 2010
- Frost/Freeze, September 23, 2010
- Frost/Freeze, September 10, 2010
- Frost/Freeze, September 6, 2010
- Frost/Freeze, May 29, 2010
- Frost/Freeze, May 24, 2010
- Frost/Freeze, May 23, 2010
- Frost/Freeze, May 22, 2010
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 5, 2009
- High Wind, November 20, 2009
- High Wind, November 20, 2009
- Frost/Freeze, October 1, 2009
- Frost/Freeze, September 30, 2009
- Avalanche, March 2, 2009
- Strong Wind, February 26, 2009
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2009
- Avalanche, December 24, 2008
- Winter Weather, December 18, 2008
- Heavy Snow, December 14, 2008
- Frost/Freeze, September 27, 2008
- Frost/Freeze, September 26, 2008
- Frost/Freeze, September 23, 2008
- Heavy Snow, February 21, 2008
- High Wind, February 7, 2008
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2008
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2008
- Blizzard, January 27, 2008
- Blizzard, January 27, 2008
- Heavy Snow, January 9, 2008
- Heavy Snow, January 8, 2008
- High Wind, January 8, 2008
- High Wind, January 3, 2008
- Heavy Snow, December 19, 2007
- High Wind, December 19, 2007
- High Wind, December 2, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, September 29, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, September 25, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, September 24, 2007
- Wildfire, July 10, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, June 7, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 26, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2007
- High Wind, November 12, 2006
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Modoc CountyEvery warning in Modoc 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.