Florida

Storm History: Dixie County, Florida

147 episodes, 248 events since 1978

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dixie 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
248
Deaths
6
Injuries
0
Damage
$1.4 billion
Episodes
147

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 Wind5200$663,000
Drought3700
Flash Flood2900$10 million
Tropical Storm2700$9.9 million
Hail2400$85,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)2460$1.3 billion
Tornado2300$658,000
Excessive Heat1300
Storm Surge/Tide600$3.1 million
Flood300$35 million
Lightning200$525,000
Winter Storm200
Cold/Wind Chill200$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Wildfire100
High Wind100$3,000

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Dixie County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Dixie CountyEvery warning in Dixie 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.