Florida

Storm History: Baker County, Florida

235 episodes, 309 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Baker County, Florida: 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
309
Deaths
2
Injuries
9
Damage
$4.4 million
Episodes
235

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
Thunderstorm Wind10405$117,000
Tornado5502$371,000
Hail4600$18,000
Flood3100$2.2 million
Wildfire2410$600,000
Heavy Rain1600
Flash Flood800$611,000
Drought800
Tropical Storm700$505,000
Winter Storm200
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Funnel Cloud100
Lightning100
Sleet100
High Wind100$2,000
Heat110
Dense Fog102

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 Baker County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Baker CountyEvery warning in Baker County since 1986Every county in Florida

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.