Florida

Storm History: Lafayette County, Florida

153 episodes, 199 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lafayette 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
199
Deaths
0
Injuries
35
Damage
$1.2 billion
Episodes
153

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 Wind4600$68,000
Tornado3205$3.9 million
Flash Flood2500$219,000
Drought2400
Tropical Storm1700$3.3 million
Hail1500$32,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)1100$1.2 billion
Flood900$262,000
Excessive Heat600
Wildfire500$250,000
Heavy Rain400
Winter Storm200
Dense Fog1030
Cold/Wind Chill100$50,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Lafayette County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Lafayette CountyEvery warning in Lafayette 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.