Idaho

Storm History: Clearwater County, Idaho

369 episodes, 516 events since 1966

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clearwater 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
516
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$25 million
Episodes
369

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 Snow20300$18,000
Winter Storm9100$539,000
Hail4600$570,000
Winter Weather3700
High Wind3201$539,000
Blizzard2500$7.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind2400$150,000
Flood1200$3.0 million
Tornado1000
Heavy Rain701$1.5 million
Excessive Heat700
Avalanche400$5,000
Frost/Freeze400
Heat400
Strong Wind300$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Wildfire211$11 million
Funnel Cloud100
Flash Flood100$15,000
Debris Flow100

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

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Clearwater CountyEvery warning in Clearwater 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.