Florida

Storm History: Orange County, Florida

512 episodes, 780 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Orange 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
780
Deaths
35
Injuries
215
Damage
$1.4 billion
Episodes
512

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
Hail38107$624,000
Tornado16116158$164 million
Thunderstorm Wind142111$4.0 million
Lightning32439$4.6 million
Funnel Cloud1100
Flash Flood1100$10,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)860$207 million
Flood700$11,000
Heavy Rain500$20 million
Frost/Freeze500$1.9 million
Tropical Storm430
Heat210
High Wind230$932 million
Strong Wind200$58 million
Debris Flow200
Cold/Wind Chill100$10,000
Winter Weather100
Wildfire110
Dense Fog100
Excessive Heat100

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 Orange County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Orange CountyEvery warning in Orange 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.