Florida

Storm History: Hendry County, Florida

225 episodes, 255 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hendry 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
255
Deaths
8
Injuries
47
Damage
$53 million
Episodes
225

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
Drought5300
Hail5100$62,000
Tornado50216$2.2 million
Frost/Freeze2400$1.8 million
Funnel Cloud1900
Thunderstorm Wind1400$89,000
Wildfire11130$155,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$20 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)730$3.5 million
Tropical Storm500
Flood300
Cold/Wind Chill200$25 million
Flash Flood200
High Wind200$5,000
Lightning221
Storm Surge/Tide200

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 Hendry County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hendry CountyEvery warning in Hendry 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.