Florida

Storm History: Escambia County, Florida

516 episodes, 683 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Escambia 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
683
Deaths
49
Injuries
269
Damage
$220 million
Episodes
516

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 Wind18506$2.0 million
Tornado1791193$35 million
Hail10000$87,000
Flash Flood8411$152 million
Rip Current443847
Lightning40622$387,000
Tropical Storm1610
Waterspout1200
Hurricane (Typhoon)520$30 million
Funnel Cloud400
Winter Weather400
Coastal Flood200$2,000
Heavy Rain200
Flood200$1,000
Heavy Snow200
Wildfire100$20,000
Storm Surge/Tide100

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 Escambia County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Escambia CountyEvery warning in Escambia 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.