Illinois

Storm History: Fulton County, Illinois

462 episodes, 758 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fulton County, Illinois: 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
758
Deaths
6
Injuries
130
Damage
$73 million
Episodes
462

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
Tornado2652124$41 million
Hail17402$3.0 million
Flash Flood11310$15 million
Thunderstorm Wind7000$392,000
Heavy Snow2502
Winter Storm2100
Flood1710$11 million
Drought1300$3.3 million
Ice Storm1100$100,000
High Wind900$2,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Heat700
Excessive Heat700
Blizzard610$200,000
Winter Weather612
Cold/Wind Chill200
Strong Wind200$19,000
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Fulton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fulton CountyEvery warning in Fulton County since 1986Every county in Illinois

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.