Maine

Storm History: Kennebec County, Maine

511 episodes, 700 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kennebec County, Maine: 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
700
Deaths
3
Injuries
4
Damage
$58 million
Episodes
511

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.

Open the live radar over Kennebec County

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
Hail16701$93,000
Heavy Snow10700$500,000
Thunderstorm Wind8810$330,000
Flood8100$3.2 million
Winter Storm4000
Flash Flood3600$2.0 million
Strong Wind3200$6,000
High Wind2100$65,000
Tornado2001$375,000
Winter Weather2000
Drought1900$1.0 million
Lightning1812$352,000
Cold/Wind Chill1700
Blizzard1400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Ice Storm500$50 million
Heavy Rain200
Heat200
Tropical Storm100
Dense Fog110
Frost/Freeze100

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 Kennebec County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kennebec CountyEvery warning in Kennebec County since 1986Every county in Maine

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.