Storm History: Denver County, Colorado
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 215 | 0 | 2 | $206,000 |
| Tornado | 187 | 3 | 37 | $190 million |
| Winter Storm | 96 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 83 | 0 | 12 | $151,000 |
| Flash Flood | 77 | 0 | 3 | $1.9 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 68 | 1 | 8 | $25,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 42 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 26 | 2 | 51 | |
| Blizzard | 23 | 2 | 2 | $19 million |
| Flood | 11 | 0 | 1 | $1.0 million |
| Heat | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 4 | 5 | 15 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | $10 million |
| Avalanche | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dust Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, June 9, 2004
- Tornado, June 15, 1988
- Blizzard, March 17, 2003
- Tornado, June 20, 2001
- Frost/Freeze, November 10, 2014
- Blizzard, April 11, 2001
- Tornado, June 3, 1981
- Tornado, June 8, 1986
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2011
- Tornado, June 23, 1997
- Flood, August 10, 1999
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2022
- Hail, June 30, 2011
- High Wind, December 28, 1997
- Tornado, June 24, 2015
- Tornado, June 9, 1967
- Tornado, May 12, 1987
- Tornado, May 29, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2009
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2011
- Hail, August 5, 1983
- Hail, April 20, 2005
- Hail, May 20, 2024
- Hail, June 8, 2026
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2002
- Hail, May 25, 1962
- Hail, May 30, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2016
- Hail, May 20, 2014
- Hail, June 10, 1999
- Hail, June 10, 1969
- Hail, June 7, 1968
- Hail, May 9, 2023
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 8, 2026
- Hail, June 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, May 5, 2026
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2026
- Wildfire, February 24, 2026
- High Wind, December 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 3, 2025
- High Wind, October 20, 2025
- Hail, July 10, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2025
- Tornado, July 6, 2025
- Flood, June 25, 2025
- Hail, June 4, 2025
- Hail, May 14, 2025
- High Wind, March 3, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 6, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 9, 2024
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2024
- Winter Storm, November 5, 2024
- Winter Storm, November 5, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 28, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2024
- Hail, June 13, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 2024
- Hail, May 30, 2024
- Hail, May 20, 2024
- High Wind, May 6, 2024
- High Wind, April 6, 2024
- Winter Weather, March 23, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 13, 2024
- Winter Weather, February 27, 2024
- Winter Weather, February 16, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 17, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2024
- Blizzard, December 25, 2023
- Winter Storm, October 27, 2023
- Hail, August 3, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2023
- Flood, July 8, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 29, 2023
- Tornado, June 22, 2023
- Tornado, June 17, 2023
- Tornado, May 26, 2023
- Tornado, May 10, 2023
- Hail, May 9, 2023
- High Wind, April 19, 2023
- High Wind, March 31, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 22, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 17, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2022
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 21, 2022
- High Wind, December 2, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 17, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 14, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 3, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2022
- Hail, August 6, 2022
- Tornado, August 5, 2022
- Tornado, June 12, 2022
- Winter Storm, May 19, 2022
- High Wind, April 29, 2022
- High Wind, April 22, 2022
- High Wind, April 4, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 16, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 30, 2021
- High Wind, December 15, 2021
- Drought, December 1, 2021
- Drought, November 1, 2021
- Hail, June 13, 2021
- Hail, May 2, 2021
- Winter Storm, April 19, 2021
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, March 21, 2021
- Blizzard, March 12, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 10, 2021
- Dust Storm, January 13, 2021
- High Wind, December 22, 2020
- Winter Weather, November 23, 2020
- High Wind, November 13, 2020
- High Wind, November 8, 2020
- Heavy Snow, October 23, 2020
- High Wind, October 11, 2020
- Winter Weather, September 7, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 11, 2020
- Hail, July 9, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 2020
- Hail, June 8, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 4, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 15, 2020
- Blizzard, March 19, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 6, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2020
- High Wind, January 17, 2020
- Blizzard, November 25, 2019
- Winter Storm, October 29, 2019
- Winter Weather, October 27, 2019
- Winter Storm, October 23, 2019
- Winter Weather, October 9, 2019
- Tornado, September 8, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2019
- Hail, July 22, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2019
- Hail, July 5, 2019
- Tornado, July 4, 2019
- Hail, July 1, 2019
- Hail, May 28, 2019
- Tornado, May 26, 2019
- Winter Storm, April 10, 2019
- Blizzard, March 13, 2019
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2019
- Blizzard, January 21, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 22, 2018
- Winter Weather, November 11, 2018
- High Wind, November 2, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2018
- Hail, July 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2018
- Tornado, July 23, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2018
- Tornado, June 19, 2018
- Hail, May 13, 2018
- Hail, May 2, 2018
- High Wind, April 17, 2018
- Blizzard, April 13, 2018
- High Wind, March 23, 2018
- High Wind, March 5, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 20, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2017
- Hail, July 8, 2017
- Hail, July 4, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2017
- Hail, May 7, 2017
- Winter Storm, April 28, 2017
- High Wind, March 7, 2017
- High Wind, March 6, 2017
- Winter Weather, February 1, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2017
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2016
- Hail, July 19, 2016
- Hail, July 15, 2016
- Hail, June 28, 2016
- Tornado, May 24, 2016
- Heavy Snow, April 15, 2016
- Blizzard, March 22, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 17, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 14, 2015
- Blizzard, November 16, 2015
- Hail, September 29, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 2015
- Tornado, June 24, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2015
- Tornado, June 4, 2015
- Avalanche, May 12, 2015
- Winter Storm, May 9, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 2, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 25, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 31, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, December 25, 2014
- Frost/Freeze, November 10, 2014
- High Wind, November 10, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 1, 2014
- Lightning, August 26, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 24, 2014
- Tornado, June 14, 2014
- Flash Flood, May 22, 2014
- Tornado, May 21, 2014
- Hail, May 20, 2014
- Winter Storm, May 11, 2014
- Tornado, May 7, 2014
- High Wind, April 29, 2014
- Winter Storm, April 2, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 30, 2014
- Winter Weather, March 1, 2014
- High Wind, February 16, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 22, 2013
- Flash Flood, September 11, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 15, 2013
- Hail, July 20, 2013
- Tornado, June 18, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 15, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2013
- Blizzard, March 8, 2013
- Blizzard, February 24, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2013
- Blizzard, December 19, 2012
- High Wind, October 17, 2012
- Tornado, June 7, 2012
- Tornado, June 6, 2012
- Hail, June 2, 2012
- Heat, June 1, 2012
- Hail, May 5, 2012
- High Wind, March 18, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2012
- High Wind, December 31, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2011
- Blizzard, November 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, October 25, 2011
- High Wind, October 6, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2011
- Tornado, July 12, 2011
- Hail, July 8, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2011
- Hail, June 30, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2011
- Tornado, June 19, 2011
- Drought, March 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2011
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 1, 2011
- Winter Weather, January 9, 2011
- Blizzard, December 30, 2010
- High Wind, October 26, 2010
- Tornado, July 4, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2010
- Tornado, May 26, 2010
- Hail, May 24, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 18, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2009
- Winter Storm, November 14, 2009
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.