Idaho

Storm History: Lemhi County, Idaho

248 episodes, 350 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lemhi 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
350
Deaths
3
Injuries
4
Damage
$46 million
Episodes
248

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 Snow9000$10,000
Thunderstorm Wind4300$135,000
Winter Storm3700$500,000
Flash Flood3600$792,000
High Wind3200$43,000
Hail3111$14,000
Winter Weather1700
Flood1201$44 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Avalanche800
Frost/Freeze700
Tornado600$253,000
Debris Flow600$5,000
Wildfire320$60,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain200
Blizzard200
Strong Wind200$8,000
Excessive Heat200
Lightning102
Funnel Cloud100
Ice Storm100

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 Lemhi CountyEvery warning in Lemhi 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.