Idaho

Storm History: Gooding County, Idaho

115 episodes, 130 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gooding 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
130
Deaths
3
Injuries
25
Damage
$52 million
Episodes
115

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 Snow3402
High Wind2700$165,000
Thunderstorm Wind16023
Hail1400$2,000
Flood900$52 million
Tornado800$55,000
Winter Storm500
Blizzard400
Flash Flood300
Heavy Rain200
Wildfire200
Dense Fog200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Weather120
Dust Storm110

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 Gooding CountyEvery warning in Gooding 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.