Maine

Storm History: Somerset County, Maine

838 episodes, 1,343 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Somerset 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
1,343
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Damage
$36 million
Episodes
838

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 Somerset 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
Heavy Snow30500
Hail17300
Winter Storm13900
Thunderstorm Wind12401
Flood11300$2.6 million
Winter Weather6600
Flash Flood6510$19 million
Cold/Wind Chill5800
Drought5300$2.0 million
Strong Wind5000$7,000
High Wind4800$10,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill4700
Tornado4400$580,000
Blizzard2500
Ice Storm1000$12 million
Lightning801$122,000
Heat600
Tropical Storm300
Heavy Rain200
Coastal Flood200
Frost/Freeze100
Sleet100

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 Somerset County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Somerset CountyEvery warning in Somerset 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.