Florida

Storm History: Brevard County, Florida

596 episodes, 1,015 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brevard 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
1,015
Deaths
24
Injuries
264
Damage
$410 million
Episodes
596

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
Hail38813$636,000
Tornado2391144$113 million
Thunderstorm Wind217241$541,000
Funnel Cloud3700
Lightning32922$7.6 million
Flood2401$408,000
Flash Flood2210$81 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)2100$7.5 million
Tropical Storm1310
Rip Current1091
Waterspout300
Heavy Rain300
High Wind300
Wildfire1052$200 million
Excessive Heat100
Winter Weather100

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 Brevard County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brevard CountyEvery warning in Brevard 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.