California

Storm History: Ventura County, California

128 episodes, 223 events since 1982

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.

Open the live radar over Ventura County

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
Flash Flood10005$198 million
High Wind3900
Tornado3110$5,000
Wildfire18220$5.9 million
Flood1000
Hail700
Winter Storm600
Thunderstorm Wind500$1,000
Funnel Cloud200
Waterspout200
Frost/Freeze100$74 million
Lightning100
Debris Flow100

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 tornado in Ventura County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.