Idaho

Storm History: Caribou County, Idaho

184 episodes, 344 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Caribou 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
344
Deaths
3
Injuries
16
Damage
$6.1 million
Episodes
184

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
Winter Storm11210$103,000
Heavy Snow67113$200,000
Hail5200$25,000
Thunderstorm Wind3103$239,000
High Wind2100$212,000
Wildfire1000$100,000
Flood800$2.0 million
Winter Weather800$2,000
Flash Flood600$5,000
Avalanche610
Blizzard600$12,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Tornado400
Heavy Rain300$3.0 million
Funnel Cloud300
Lightning100$150,000
Dust Devil100$5,000

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.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Caribou CountyEvery warning in Caribou 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.