Idaho

Storm History: Adams County, Idaho

189 episodes, 224 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Adams County, Idaho: 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
224
Deaths
2
Injuries
3
Damage
$596,000
Episodes
189

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
Heavy Snow13400
Winter Storm2100
Thunderstorm Wind1301$50,000
Hail700
Flood700$403,000
High Wind700
Winter Weather511
Heavy Rain500
Tornado401$128,000
Blizzard400
Dense Fog300
Flash Flood300
Avalanche310
Strong Wind300$15,000
Debris Flow300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200

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 Adams County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Adams CountyEvery warning in Adams County since 1986Every county in Idaho

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.