Maine

Storm History: Waldo County, Maine

384 episodes, 717 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Waldo 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
717
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$35 million
Episodes
384

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 Waldo 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 Snow20100
Winter Storm6300
Strong Wind6300$9,000
Flood6000$4.3 million
Hail4900
Drought4500$2.1 million
High Wind4000$285,000
Thunderstorm Wind3700$2,000
Cold/Wind Chill3300
Winter Weather2700
Blizzard2600
Flash Flood1900$1.6 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1500
Ice Storm1000$27 million
Coastal Flood700$91,000
Tropical Storm510
Tornado403$53,000
Heat400
Lightning300$154,000
Storm Surge/Tide200$101,000
Heavy Rain200
Hurricane (Typhoon)100
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 Waldo County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Waldo CountyEvery warning in Waldo 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.