Colorado

Storm History: Broomfield County, Colorado

427 episodes, 676 events since 1996

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Broomfield County, Colorado: 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
676
Deaths
18
Injuries
106
Damage
$2.1 billion
Episodes
427

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.

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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
High Wind191324$9.2 million
Winter Storm19100
Heavy Snow8100
Winter Weather58251
Blizzard4222$34 million
Hail2800$201,000
Tornado2000
Thunderstorm Wind1300
Drought900
Flash Flood800$10,000
Wildfire8412$2.0 billion
Cold/Wind Chill6515
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Heat500
Strong Wind301$30,000
Avalanche321
Frost/Freeze200$10 million
Dust Storm200

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.

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Broomfield CountyEvery warning in Broomfield County since 1986Every county in Colorado

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.