Colorado

Storm History: Teller County, Colorado

405 episodes, 639 events since 1968

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Teller 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
639
Deaths
2
Injuries
8
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
405

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 Storm14700
High Wind12800$2.0 million
Heavy Snow11200
Hail8900$5,000
Flash Flood3800$510,000
Tornado3300$27,000
Dust Storm2600
Winter Weather2200
Blizzard1700$100,000
Wildfire1304$12 million
Cold/Wind Chill600
Lightning524
Thunderstorm Wind100
Drought100
Dust Devil100$15,000

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 Teller CountyEvery warning in Teller 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.