Illinois

Storm History: Peoria County, Illinois

488 episodes, 875 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Peoria 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
875
Deaths
20
Injuries
51
Damage
$297 million
Episodes
488

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
Tornado290139$95 million
Hail23210$6.0 million
Flash Flood11302$131 million
Thunderstorm Wind8700$832,000
Winter Storm2325
Heavy Snow2315
High Wind1500$39,000
Drought1500$34 million
Flood1210$28 million
Ice Storm1100$2.2 million
Winter Weather1010
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1010
Heat840
Excessive Heat830
Cold/Wind Chill650
Blizzard500$750,000
Strong Wind400$71,000
Frost/Freeze100
Dense Fog100
Lightning100$45,000

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 Peoria County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Peoria CountyEvery warning in Peoria 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.