Maine

Storm History: Lincoln County, Maine

383 episodes, 433 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lincoln 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
433
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
383

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
Heavy Snow10000
Hail5100$115,000
Strong Wind3600$5,000
Winter Storm3500
Thunderstorm Wind3000
High Wind2700$35,000
Flood2600$4.6 million
Drought2300$1.1 million
Lightning1602$2.1 million
Cold/Wind Chill1400
Winter Weather1400
Flash Flood1400$14 million
Blizzard1400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Coastal Flood500$128,000
Ice Storm500$3.7 million
Tornado400$250,000
Storm Surge/Tide300$63,000
Tropical Storm300
Heavy Rain200
Heat200
Hurricane (Typhoon)100
Frost/Freeze100

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.

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lincoln CountyEvery warning in Lincoln 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.