Colorado

Storm History: Routt County, Colorado

1,509 episodes, 3,229 events since 1976

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Routt 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
3,229
Deaths
8
Injuries
4
Damage
$2.9 million
Episodes
1,509

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
Winter Storm1,08510$6,000
Winter Weather77200$5,000
Drought49500
Heavy Snow31400$30,000
Wildfire10302$1.7 million
Frost/Freeze8900$7,000
Dense Fog8400
High Wind7700$161,000
Blizzard5400
Thunderstorm Wind2600$111,000
Excessive Heat2600
Flood2400$337,000
Hail2000$205,000
Avalanche1672$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Debris Flow900
Heavy Rain600$5,000
Strong Wind500$264,000
Flash Flood400$5,000
Tornado300$3,000
Lightning200$40,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Dense Smoke100
Ice Storm100$2,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 Routt CountyEvery warning in Routt 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.