Storm History: Ventura County, California
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ventura 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
- 223
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 25
- Damage
- $278 million
- Episodes
- 128
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood | 100 | 0 | 5 | $198 million |
| High Wind | 39 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 31 | 1 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Wildfire | 18 | 2 | 20 | $5.9 million |
| Flood | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Funnel Cloud | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Waterspout | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | $74 million |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Debris Flow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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 episode, newest first
- Wildfire, May 18, 2026
- High Wind, April 3, 2026
- High Wind, March 4, 2026
- Flash Flood, February 16, 2026
- High Wind, January 8, 2026
- Flash Flood, January 3, 2026
- Flash Flood, October 13, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 24, 2025
- Flash Flood, September 2, 2025
- Wildfire, August 7, 2025
- Tornado, March 12, 2025
- Tornado, February 13, 2025
- High Wind, January 22, 2025
- High Wind, January 20, 2025
- High Wind, January 11, 2025
- Wildfire, January 7, 2025
- High Wind, January 7, 2025
- Wildfire, June 15, 2024
- Flash Flood, March 30, 2024
- Hail, March 13, 2024
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2024
- Tornado, February 4, 2024
- High Wind, January 10, 2024
- High Wind, January 6, 2024
- High Wind, January 3, 2024
- Flash Flood, December 21, 2023
- High Wind, December 7, 2023
- High Wind, November 19, 2023
- High Wind, November 7, 2023
- High Wind, October 28, 2023
- Flash Flood, August 20, 2023
- High Wind, April 3, 2023
- Tornado, March 21, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2023
- Tornado, February 22, 2023
- High Wind, February 21, 2023
- High Wind, January 22, 2023
- Flash Flood, January 9, 2023
- High Wind, November 15, 2022
- Flash Flood, September 11, 2022
- High Wind, May 9, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 4, 2021
- Tornado, December 25, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 29, 2019
- Flash Flood, March 22, 2018
- Flash Flood, February 17, 2017
- Flash Flood, March 7, 2016
- Flash Flood, January 5, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2015
- Flash Flood, March 1, 2015
- Tornado, December 11, 2014
- Debris Flow, October 31, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2013
- Flash Flood, October 11, 2012
- Flash Flood, September 13, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2011
- Hail, October 19, 2010
- Flash Flood, October 2, 2010
- Tornado, January 18, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2008
- Tornado, January 23, 2008
- Flash Flood, January 4, 2008
- Flash Flood, October 14, 2006
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2006
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2005
- Flash Flood, February 19, 2005
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2005
- Tornado, January 10, 2005
- Flash Flood, January 7, 2005
- Flash Flood, January 2, 2005
- Flash Flood, December 30, 2004
- Tornado, December 27, 2004
- Winter Storm, October 26, 2004
- Flash Flood, February 25, 2004
- Wildfire, October 25, 2003
- Wildfire, October 23, 2003
- Funnel Cloud, February 24, 2003
- Flash Flood, November 30, 2002
- Wildfire, June 1, 2002
- Flood, December 20, 2001
- Flood, November 24, 2001
- Flood, November 12, 2001
- Flash Flood, September 3, 2001
- Flash Flood, September 3, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2001
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2001
- Waterspout, February 12, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2001
- Waterspout, January 26, 2001
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2001
- Wildfire, December 26, 2000
- Wildfire, December 25, 2000
- Wildfire, December 18, 2000
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2000
- Lightning, April 18, 2000
- Flood, April 17, 2000
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2000
- Wildfire, December 22, 1999
- Wildfire, December 21, 1999
- Wildfire, December 4, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 14, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 13, 1999
- Hail, April 23, 1999
- Flood, April 11, 1999
- Funnel Cloud, April 7, 1999
- Flood, March 25, 1999
- Wildfire, January 3, 1999
- Frost/Freeze, December 21, 1998
- Wildfire, October 18, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 1998
- Tornado, May 13, 1998
- Flood, May 5, 1998
- Flood, March 24, 1998
- Flash Flood, February 23, 1998
- Flash Flood, February 7, 1998
- Flash Flood, February 5, 1998
- Flash Flood, February 2, 1998
- Wildfire, August 5, 1997
- Wildfire, May 1, 1996
- Wildfire, April 28, 1996
- Tornado, December 7, 1992
- Hail, September 5, 1991
- Hail, June 6, 1987
- Tornado, November 9, 1982
More
Tornadoes in Ventura CountyEvery warning in Ventura 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.