Colorado

Storm History: Denver County, Colorado

584 episodes, 852 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Denver 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
852
Deaths
13
Injuries
134
Damage
$222 million
Episodes
584

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
Hail21502$206,000
Tornado187337$190 million
Winter Storm9600
High Wind83012$151,000
Flash Flood7703$1.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind6818$25,000
Heavy Snow4200
Winter Weather26251
Blizzard2322$19 million
Flood1101$1.0 million
Heat500
Drought500
Cold/Wind Chill4515
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning202
Strong Wind100$10,000
Frost/Freeze100$10 million
Avalanche101
Dust Storm100
Wildfire100

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 Denver County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Denver CountyEvery warning in Denver 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.