Illinois

Storm History: Pike County, Illinois

350 episodes, 443 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pike 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
443
Deaths
3
Injuries
5
Damage
$23 million
Episodes
350

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
Hail10500$56,000
Tornado9705$3.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind8600$45,000
Winter Storm3100
Excessive Heat2510
Flash Flood2420$15,000
Heat1900
Flood1700$18 million
Heavy Snow900
High Wind700$2,000
Drought600
Ice Storm400
Blizzard400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Winter Weather200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Frost/Freeze100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Lightning100$1.0 million

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 Pike County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pike CountyEvery warning in Pike 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.