Georgia

Storm History: Hancock County, Georgia

166 episodes, 181 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hancock County, Georgia: 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
181
Deaths
1
Injuries
4
Damage
$3.0 million
Episodes
166

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
Tornado3714$2.0 million
Drought3300$621,000
Hail2900$37,000
Tropical Storm1400$50,000
Thunderstorm Wind1300$33,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Heat700
Flash Flood600$93,000
Heavy Snow500$3,000
Excessive Heat400
Winter Storm400$150,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Ice Storm300$33,000
Flood300$8,000
Heavy Rain200
High Wind100$5,000
Dense Fog100
Freezing Fog100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Hancock County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hancock CountyEvery warning in Hancock County since 1986Every county in Georgia

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.