Idaho

Storm History: Blaine County, Idaho

233 episodes, 393 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Blaine 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
393
Deaths
6
Injuries
14
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
233

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.

Open the live radar over Blaine County

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
Winter Storm105112$49,000
Heavy Snow7000$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind4900$153,000
Wildfire3000$3.6 million
Avalanche2941$205,000
Flood2110$13 million
High Wind2100$1,000
Flash Flood1700$4.5 million
Hail1500$10,000
Tornado800$119,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Winter Weather501
Lightning400$8,000
Heat300
Excessive Heat300
Blizzard300
Heavy Rain100$4.5 million
Funnel Cloud100
Debris Flow100
Freezing Fog100

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 Blaine County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Blaine CountyEvery warning in Blaine 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.