Indiana Storm History: Every Flood, Storm and Heat Wave Since 1950

The worst in Indiana on the map

The deadliest and costliest episodes on record here, colored by kind of event.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

The record

Events: 43,258
Deaths: 579
Injuries: 5,226
Damage: $5.5 billion

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.

Every year

Tap a year for every episode in it.

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.

Deaths each year

By kind of event

Kind of event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Thunderstorm Wind	16,768	53	377	$238 million
Hail	7,627	0	3	$93 million
Flood	3,856	51	15	$1.5 billion
Flash Flood	2,210	32	8	$526 million
Tornado	2,103	276	4,383	$2.8 billion
Winter Storm	2,048	15	44	$35 million
Winter Weather	1,977	58	139	$3.1 million
Heavy Snow	1,269	7	71	$5.9 million
High Wind	924	8	22	$72 million
Drought	546	0	0	$88 million
Dense Fog	512	7	5	$510,000
Strong Wind	503	5	5	$3.9 million
Heat	401	1	4
Lightning	395	14	104	$27 million
Frost/Freeze	362	0	0	$9.6 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	340	2	0
Ice Storm	336	2	3	$1.2 million
Heavy Rain	264	0	0	$184,000
Cold/Wind Chill	223	9	0	$160,000
Excessive Heat	206	4	16
Lake-Effect Snow	117	2	0
Blizzard	105	3	0	$100,000
Funnel Cloud	90	0	0
Rip Current	25	29	16
Lakeshore Flood	15	0	0
Freezing Fog	12	0	0
Wildfire	8	0	0	$35,000
Dust Storm	6	0	1	$50,000
Dust Devil	3	0	2
Coastal Flood	2	0	0	$10,000
Seiche	2	0	0
High Surf	2	0	4
Dense Smoke	1	1	4

The deadliest

The costliest

Counties

Every storm event filed in each county, including the zone-filed ones that covered it.

Counties and zones as filed

The places filed most often, as the offices named them.

County or zone	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Marion	1,069	11	276	$122 million
Allen	774	5	45	$20 million
St. Joseph	710	6	138	$48 million
Lake	686	5	40	$66 million
Hamilton	602	12	58	$50 million
Gibson	595	2	21	$79 million
Hendricks	575	2	22	$16 million
Knox	566	1	24	$53 million
Tippecanoe	563	4	98	$21 million
Elkhart	563	63	521	$24 million
Vanderburgh	553	22	215	$67 million
Madison	531	1	15	$43 million
Kosciusko	524	2	83	$17 million
Dubois	506	1	8	$2.8 million
Posey zone	505	0	0	$16 million
Ripley	495	3	12	$5.9 million
Gibson zone	478	1	11	$80 million
Vigo	477	0	6	$110 million
Clark	477	5	45	$312 million
Warrick zone	473	2	2	$22 million
Vanderburgh zone	459	6	32	$33 million
Delaware	452	2	6	$32 million
Spencer zone	450	0	0	$15 million
Porter	447	12	17	$50 million
Huntington	442	1	25	$12 million
Wayne	442	2	6	$8.8 million
Posey	441	2	4	$10 million
Pike zone	438	2	2	$8.4 million
Morgan	433	1	48	$215 million
Johnson	430	5	39	$253 million
La Porte	427	2	23	$32 million
Boone	410	21	108	$33 million
Harrison	409	4	42	$2.6 million
Warrick	399	7	46	$99 million
Monroe	375	6	18	$73 million
Shelby	361	0	13	$56 million
Cass	359	1	21	$5.7 million
Putnam	359	1	13	$8.2 million
Grant	357	10	321	$258 million
Crawford	350	1	23	$10 million
Miami	345	0	6	$11 million
Whitley	340	0	1	$3.7 million
Lawrence	338	4	59	$65 million
Spencer	335	0	3	$4.0 million
Pike	334	7	63	$38 million
Jackson	331	6	59	$82 million
Montgomery	327	7	56	$44 million
Hancock	320	2	55	$63 million
Daviess	320	0	39	$70 million
Bartholomew	320	4	8	$434 million
Marshall	318	4	50	$31 million
Washington	318	9	26	$18 million
Howard	312	18	615	$298 million
Greene	305	5	10	$89 million
Noble	304	4	103	$58 million
Dearborn	304	0	21	$5.9 million
Clinton	290	3	54	$24 million
Steuben	285	3	30	$40 million
Floyd	282	0	11	$4.0 million
Henry	279	1	11	$36 million
Rush	275	3	41	$11 million
Parke	272	0	4	$3.1 million
Owen	271	3	9	$138 million
Jasper	266	2	32	$7.7 million
Randolph	266	2	58	$53 million
White	264	10	75	$5.6 million
Decatur	262	4	17	$5.6 million
Wabash	259	2	19	$12 million
Vermillion	257	0	9	$7.2 million
Jefferson	254	16	178	$29 million
Orange	250	0	1	$4.4 million
Franklin	249	11	12	$3.5 million
Carroll	248	2	5	$25 million
Sullivan	246	3	9	$51 million
Wells	245	1	44	$30 million
Fountain	242	3	2	$33 million
Fulton	240	10	162	$6.7 million
Perry	229	5	20	$253 million
Benton	226	0	3	$254 million
Adams	224	4	45	$31 million
Newton	223	5	29	$6.0 million
Starke	219	5	32	$28 million
Fayette	214	0	5	$3.9 million
Lagrange	209	11	119	$12 million
Clay	207	0	2	$93 million
Warren	201	0	0	$4.1 million
De Kalb	199	3	10	$29 million
Brown	193	0	5	$3.0 million
Porter zone	186	17	12	$133,000
Switzerland	184	2	41	$22 million
Martin	181	4	7	$25 million
Lake zone	180	6	7	$3.2 million
Jennings	177	0	12	$2.3 million
Jay	177	0	2	$5.0 million
Dearborn zone	169	0	6	$10 million
Ripley zone	163	1	0	$4.3 million
Tipton	156	2	13	$8.9 million
Scott	154	2	74	$4.6 million
Wayne zone	153	0	4	$9.1 million
Pulaski	152	0	13	$4.9 million
Marion zone	149	14	63	$21 million
Union	146	2	9	$3.7 million
La Porte zone	146	17	9	$37,000
Tippecanoe zone	145	0	0	$23 million
Fayette zone	144	0	0	$3.8 million
Franklin zone	144	1	0	$4.1 million
Elkhart zone	143	4	9	$47,000
St. Joseph zone	140	11	2	$93,000
Knox zone	132	0	22	$19 million
Allen zone	131	6	1	$7.1 million
Parke zone	127	0	0	$9.7 million
Blackford	124	0	26	$26 million
Vigo zone	122	1	1	$9.0 million
Jackson zone	121	3	0	$2.0 million
Marshall zone	120	2	1	$25,000
Lagrange zone	120	3	2	$352,000
Noble zone	119	7	2	$71,000
Fountain zone	115	0	0	$9.5 million
Madison zone	115	0	14	$7.4 million
Kosciusko zone	115	2	0	$202,000
Union zone	113	2	0	$1.7 million
Vermillion zone	112	0	0	$10 million
Whitley zone	112	0	2	$36,000
Owen zone	111	2	6	$9.1 million
Steuben zone	110	6	2	$10,000
Delaware zone	109	0	1	$10 million
Hamilton zone	107	2	6	$38 million
Starke zone	106	1	1	$25,000
Miami zone	105	0	0	$26,000
Warren zone	105	1	0	$9.6 million
Sullivan zone	105	0	0	$9.1 million
Ohio	104	0	64	$1.3 million
Jasper zone	104	2	4
De Kalb zone	103	2	3	$375,000
Switzerland zone	100	0	0	$4.0 million
Bartholomew zone	100	1	1	$1.8 million
Fulton zone	99	0	0	$25,000
Putnam zone	98	2	14	$905,000
Cass zone	97	0	0	$50,000
Huntington zone	97	0	0	$186,000
Morgan zone	96	1	0	$13 million
Jefferson zone	96	0	0	$7.2 million
Greene zone	95	0	0	$7.0 million
Daviess zone	95	0	0	$7.8 million
Wells zone	95	3	0	$4.5 million
Newton zone	94	2	0
Adams zone	93	2	1	$5.1 million
Ohio zone	92	1	0	$2.5 million
Henry zone	90	1	3	$135,000
Lawrence zone	90	0	4	$1.8 million

Every year

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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.