Florida

Storm History: Hardee County, Florida

231 episodes, 253 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hardee 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
253
Deaths
4
Injuries
9
Damage
$342 million
Episodes
231

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
Tornado4501$1.1 million
Frost/Freeze3900$12 million
Dense Fog3900
Hail3300$55,000
Thunderstorm Wind3300$612,000
Flood1600$141,000
Tropical Storm1300$3.7 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)1140$62 million
Flash Flood800$3.2 million
Heavy Rain500
High Wind406$260 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning302$50,000

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 Hardee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hardee CountyEvery warning in Hardee 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.