Florida

Storm History: Sumter County, Florida

302 episodes, 327 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sumter 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
327
Deaths
2
Injuries
28
Damage
$109 million
Episodes
302

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
Frost/Freeze7200$3.4 million
Dense Fog5600
Tornado52022$66 million
Thunderstorm Wind5101$533,000
Hail4500$503,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Tropical Storm900$587,000
Lightning825$133,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)500$23 million
Flood400$50,000
Heavy Rain400
High Wind300$14 million
Wildfire200
Flash Flood200$35,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Funnel Cloud100

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 Sumter County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Sumter CountyEvery warning in Sumter 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.