Iowa

Storm History: Page County, Iowa

385 episodes, 509 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Page 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
509
Deaths
2
Injuries
53
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
385

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
Hail13500$110,000
Tornado126153$13 million
Thunderstorm Wind8000$478,000
Winter Storm3200
Cold/Wind Chill2000
High Wind1600$40,000
Flash Flood1610$1.9 million
Heat1600
Blizzard1500
Excessive Heat1300
Flood1100$2.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Winter Weather500
Ice Storm400
Drought400
Heavy Snow300
Heavy Rain200
Lightning100$35,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 Page County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Page CountyEvery warning in Page 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.