Storm History: Sacramento County, California
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sacramento 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
- 246
- Deaths
- 5
- Injuries
- 2
- Damage
- $279 million
- Episodes
- 110
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 | 92 | 1 | 0 | $139 million |
| Tornado | 48 | 0 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| Winter Storm | 30 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 26 | 4 | 1 | $138 million |
| Heavy Rain | 16 | 0 | 1 | $415,000 |
| Hail | 9 | 0 | 0 | $11,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 7 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Debris Flow | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 6 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
| Funnel Cloud | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, January 1, 2023
- Flash Flood, January 1, 2023
- Flood, January 1, 2006
- Flash Flood, January 2, 1997
- Flash Flood, January 22, 1997
- Tornado, February 21, 2005
- Flash Flood, January 26, 1997
- Heavy Rain, April 2, 2006
- Tornado, February 7, 1978
- Tornado, March 22, 1983
- Tornado, April 19, 1988
- Lightning, October 9, 2000
- Heavy Rain, February 11, 2000
- Heavy Snow, February 25, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 17, 2016
- Tornado, January 6, 2017
- Tornado, April 8, 2005
- Tornado, January 13, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2025
- Flash Flood, February 12, 2019
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 episode, newest first
- Flood, April 20, 2026
- Tornado, April 10, 2026
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2026
- Flood, January 2, 2026
- Flood, December 24, 2025
- Flood, November 16, 2025
- Flood, November 13, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2025
- Flood, March 11, 2025
- Flood, February 12, 2025
- Debris Flow, February 6, 2025
- Debris Flow, February 3, 2025
- Flood, December 13, 2024
- Flood, November 22, 2024
- Debris Flow, February 17, 2024
- Flood, February 4, 2024
- Tornado, December 18, 2023
- Flood, October 22, 2023
- Flood, March 27, 2023
- Tornado, March 10, 2023
- Tornado, January 13, 2023
- Tornado, January 7, 2023
- Flood, January 3, 2023
- Flash Flood, January 1, 2023
- Flood, January 1, 2023
- Flash Flood, December 27, 2022
- Flood, December 9, 2022
- Tornado, November 6, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2021
- Winter Storm, October 24, 2021
- Tornado, May 18, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 4, 2020
- Hail, March 20, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 12, 2019
- Flood, January 16, 2019
- Flood, January 6, 2019
- Heavy Rain, December 16, 2018
- Tornado, March 21, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 25, 2018
- Winter Storm, November 15, 2017
- Flood, March 21, 2017
- Flash Flood, February 17, 2017
- Flood, February 11, 2017
- Flood, February 6, 2017
- Tornado, January 6, 2017
- Flood, December 14, 2016
- Heavy Rain, October 14, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 17, 2016
- Flood, January 4, 2016
- Heavy Rain, November 8, 2015
- Winter Storm, April 6, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 3, 2014
- Flood, May 5, 2013
- Flood, December 1, 2012
- Tornado, October 21, 2012
- Tornado, February 25, 2011
- Heavy Rain, October 13, 2009
- Flash Flood, October 3, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 6, 2007
- Heavy Snow, September 19, 2007
- Heavy Rain, February 26, 2007
- Tornado, February 25, 2007
- Heavy Rain, April 2, 2006
- Flood, January 1, 2006
- Heavy Rain, December 17, 2005
- Funnel Cloud, May 9, 2005
- Hail, May 9, 2005
- Hail, May 9, 2005
- Hail, May 9, 2005
- Hail, May 9, 2005
- Tornado, April 8, 2005
- Tornado, April 8, 2005
- Hail, March 20, 2005
- Funnel Cloud, March 20, 2005
- Hail, March 20, 2005
- Tornado, February 21, 2005
- Tornado, February 21, 2005
- Funnel Cloud, March 2, 2001
- Funnel Cloud, February 19, 2001
- Heavy Rain, January 8, 2001
- Lightning, October 9, 2000
- Heavy Rain, September 1, 2000
- Flood, May 15, 2000
- Heavy Rain, February 11, 2000
- Heavy Rain, January 22, 2000
- Heavy Rain, January 22, 2000
- Heavy Rain, January 22, 2000
- Heavy Rain, January 22, 2000
- Flood, February 9, 1999
- Flood, February 7, 1999
- Tornado, April 24, 1998
- Heavy Rain, January 18, 1998
- Heavy Rain, January 12, 1998
- Flash Flood, January 26, 1997
- Flash Flood, January 26, 1997
- Flash Flood, January 22, 1997
- Flash Flood, January 2, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 22, 1996
- Tornado, April 19, 1988
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 28, 1988
- Tornado, March 22, 1983
- Hail, January 24, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 13, 1981
- Tornado, February 7, 1978
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 5, 1978
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 16, 1978
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 17, 1973
- Hail, April 25, 1959
More
Tornadoes in Sacramento CountyEvery warning in Sacramento 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.