Illinois

Storm History: Vermilion County, Illinois

441 episodes, 830 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Vermilion 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
830
Deaths
8
Injuries
53
Damage
$142 million
Episodes
441

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
Tornado309130$62 million
Hail21801$9.6 million
Flash Flood10800$3.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind8101$1.4 million
Heavy Snow2400
Winter Storm1804
High Wind1600$50,000
Drought1000$65 million
Heat720
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Excessive Heat700
Ice Storm400
Blizzard420$10,000
Winter Weather417
Flood300
Strong Wind300$12,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Dense Fog2210
Frost/Freeze100
Lightning100$2,000
Wildfire100

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 Vermilion County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Vermilion CountyEvery warning in Vermilion 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.