Indiana

Storm History: Fayette County, Indiana

302 episodes, 358 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fayette County, Indiana: 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
358
Deaths
0
Injuries
5
Damage
$7.6 million
Episodes
302

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
Thunderstorm Wind5800$233,000
Flash Flood5500$252,000
Winter Storm4700$150,000
Hail4400$93,000
Flood4100$69,000
Tornado3904$3.2 million
Winter Weather3600
High Wind1100$2.9 million
Heavy Snow900
Ice Storm600
Heat300
Lightning201$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$620,000
Blizzard100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Fayette County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fayette CountyEvery warning in Fayette County since 1986Every county in Indiana

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.