Idaho

Storm History: Custer County, Idaho

179 episodes, 339 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Custer 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
339
Deaths
4
Injuries
5
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
179

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 Storm9300
Heavy Snow7200
Thunderstorm Wind3303$467,000
Avalanche2941$205,000
High Wind2800$4,000
Wildfire2200$3.6 million
Hail1400$7,000
Flash Flood1400$904,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Flood700$3.9 million
Tornado400$1,000
Heat300
Excessive Heat300
Freezing Fog200
Debris Flow200
Heavy Rain100$3.0 million
Dust Storm100
Blizzard100
Winter Weather101

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 Custer CountyEvery warning in Custer 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.