Iowa

Storm History: Ida County, Iowa

445 episodes, 556 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ida County, Iowa: 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
556
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
445

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
Hail13901$451,000
Tornado7004$7.3 million
Winter Weather6200
Drought4600$16 million
Winter Storm4100
Blizzard3900$33,000
Thunderstorm Wind3200$167,000
Flash Flood2400$20,000
High Wind2100$122,000
Excessive Heat2100
Heavy Snow1500
Flood1200$2.2 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Cold/Wind Chill900
Ice Storm600
Heat500
Wildfire100
Dense Fog110
Strong Wind100

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 Ida County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ida CountyEvery warning in Ida County since 1986Every county in Iowa

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.