Michigan Storm History: Every Flood, Storm and Heat Wave Since 1950

The worst in Michigan on the map

The deadliest and costliest episodes on record here, colored by kind of event.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

The record

Events: 36,397
Deaths: 495
Injuries: 5,303
Damage: $7.1 billion

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.

Every year

Tap a year for every episode in it.

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.

Deaths each year

By kind of event

Kind of event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Thunderstorm Wind	13,171	62	388	$597 million
Hail	6,036	0	8	$446 million
Winter Storm	4,104	7	38	$51 million
Heavy Snow	2,508	1	4	$30 million
Winter Weather	2,465	41	85	$3.0 million
High Wind	1,327	6	11	$796 million
Tornado	1,291	253	3,467	$1.3 billion
Lake-Effect Snow	856	0	8	$50,000
Flood	639	4	0	$564 million
Cold/Wind Chill	608	21	200	$4.4 million
Flash Flood	541	6	8	$2.6 billion
Blizzard	438	1	20	$1.4 million
Ice Storm	430	2	5	$317 million
Lightning	327	19	127	$19 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	310	9	0	$475,000
Heat	267	6	882
Strong Wind	194	4	1	$12 million
Heavy Rain	164	1	4	$1.1 million
Frost/Freeze	157	0	0	$133 million
Lakeshore Flood	125	2	0	$14 million
Excessive Heat	101	3	0
Dense Fog	97	2	3
Drought	54	0	0	$150 million
Rip Current	45	43	30
Funnel Cloud	43	0	0
Sleet	35	0	0
Wildfire	29	0	4	$23 million
Seiche	17	0	0	$31,000
Waterspout	12	0	0	$200,000
Freezing Fog	3	1	10
Dust Devil	2	0	0	$30
High Surf	1	1	0

The deadliest

The costliest

Counties

Every storm event filed in each county, including the zone-filed ones that covered it.

Counties and zones as filed

The places filed most often, as the offices named them.

County or zone	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Oakland	1,076	7	101	$508 million
Wayne	929	14	245	$1.5 billion
Washtenaw	829	7	18	$43 million
Genesee	761	121	925	$121 million
Macomb	721	12	250	$390 million
Marquette zone	565	16	50	$23 million
Marquette	538	2	8	$81 million
Northern Houghton zone	532	4	7	$334,000
Alger zone	532	3	0	$1.9 million
Lenawee	518	10	98	$35 million
Berrien	512	5	31	$24 million
Kent	511	16	376	$167 million
Monroe	493	17	93	$79 million
Ontonagon zone	480	3	3	$1.4 million
Saginaw	479	0	9	$29 million
Livingston	459	3	34	$24 million
Gogebic zone	452	1	2	$19 million
St. Clair	422	5	103	$50 million
Baraga zone	411	1	6	$4.8 million
Lapeer	394	1	66	$42 million
Calhoun	392	1	31	$51 million
St. Joseph	374	5	17	$3.3 million
Allegan	374	4	45	$37 million
Kalamazoo	371	6	131	$239 million
Keweenaw zone	367	0	0	$565,000
Ottawa	345	21	228	$108 million
Tuscola	343	0	2	$15 million
Branch	331	22	434	$255 million
Hillsdale	329	9	138	$57 million
Luce zone	322	3	1	$12 million
Cass	316	2	34	$12 million
Ingham	315	8	8	$152 million
Shiawassee	309	0	17	$26 million
Jackson	307	1	15	$10 million
Delta zone	303	5	7	$3.3 million
Huron	298	3	7	$7.1 million
Bay	295	2	11	$36 million
Van Buren	287	1	35	$69 million
Midland	283	0	13	$341 million
Delta	272	0	6	$7.2 million
Clinton	262	3	27	$20 million
Barry	259	0	8	$15 million
Dickinson zone	254	7	10	$338,000
Iron zone	250	3	0	$3.2 million
Dickinson	249	0	0	$8.9 million
Houghton	247	1	0	$129 million
Menominee	245	1	13	$6.3 million
Muskegon	242	0	5	$49 million
Sanilac	242	2	3	$8.0 million
Southern Schoolcraft zone	241	4	8	$197,000
Menominee zone	239	3	1	$2.3 million
Eaton	236	2	53	$71 million
Ionia	227	0	22	$35 million
Gogebic	225	2	2	$29 million
Montcalm	216	0	34	$22 million
Wayne zone	209	16	577	$237 million
Antrim zone	200	0	0	$10 million
Northern Schoolcraft zone	196	1	3	$129,000
Berrien zone	186	18	15	$8.1 million
Allegan zone	185	0	0	$20 million
Ottawa zone	185	1	30	$26 million
Newaygo	182	4	3	$15 million
Isabella	182	0	7	$102 million
Otsego zone	176	0	0	$419,000
Iron	175	0	2	$9.5 million
Leelanau zone	174	2	0	$51 million
Grand Traverse	173	1	3	$17 million
Macomb zone	173	6	71	$227 million
Southern Houghton zone	173	0	0	$246,000
Roscommon	172	2	1	$52 million
St. Clair zone	169	2	17	$49 million
Gratiot	168	2	8	$7.6 million
Saginaw zone	168	0	31	$42 million
Emmet zone	168	1	0	$5.6 million
Ogemaw	167	2	29	$41 million
Alger	165	1	5	$1.7 million
Van Buren zone	165	6	0	$15 million
Iosco	164	4	20	$7.3 million
Grand Traverse zone	164	0	0	$21 million
Oakland zone	163	15	218	$194 million
Cass zone	161	1	7	$4.0 million
Kalkaska zone	161	0	0	$435,000
Washtenaw zone	159	2	30	$64 million
Alpena	157	0	4	$1.0 million
Huron zone	157	1	11	$15 million
Muskegon zone	157	1	0	$20 million
Baraga	155	0	0	$21 million
Sanilac zone	155	1	11	$18 million
Genesee zone	153	2	37	$45 million
Charlevoix zone	153	0	0	$7.9 million
Otsego	151	2	45	$53 million
Monroe zone	151	4	22	$39 million
Ontonagon	150	0	0	$11 million
Lenawee zone	148	0	12	$28 million
Oceana zone	147	0	0	$16 million
Livingston zone	145	1	17	$46 million
Tuscola zone	144	0	11	$19 million
Kent zone	143	0	1	$36 million
Chippewa zone	143	0	0	$356,000
Gladwin	141	1	6	$19 million
Bay zone	141	3	11	$19 million
Mason zone	141	1	0	$6.7 million
Cheboygan zone	139	1	1	$332,000
Lapeer zone	138	3	12	$22 million
Alcona	137	0	1	$5.9 million
Midland zone	137	0	13	$14 million
Benzie zone	136	1	1	$18 million
Mecosta	132	0	26	$19 million
Manistee zone	131	1	0	$11 million
Antrim	129	0	7	$3.1 million
Wexford	126	0	1	$2.1 million
Clare	126	0	2	$7.5 million
Shiawassee zone	125	0	15	$18 million
St. Joseph zone	123	1	2	$40,000
Crawford	122	0	15	$2.7 million
Manistee	121	3	0	$7.9 million
Arenac	120	0	7	$5.4 million
Chippewa	119	0	1	$796,000
Crawford zone	119	0	1	$1.9 million
Mason	117	0	13	$13 million
Oceana	116	0	41	$10 million
Kalamazoo zone	116	0	0	$20 million
Oscoda	113	2	4	$3.2 million
Newaygo zone	110	0	0	$13 million
Montmorency	109	0	2	$1.0 million
Branch zone	106	1	8	$28,000
Alpena zone	106	0	0	$195,000
Lake zone	103	0	0	$7.6 million
Osceola	101	0	5	$12 million
Presque Isle zone	100	0	0	$293,000
Mackinac zone	100	2	0	$118,000
Leelanau	99	0	0	$28 million
Barry zone	99	0	0	$20 million
Missaukee zone	98	0	0	$242,000
Hillsdale zone	98	0	0	$2,000
Cheboygan	97	0	3	$545,000
Wexford zone	97	0	0	$408,000
Presque Isle	96	1	3	$4.3 million
Roscommon zone	96	0	0	$178,000
Schoolcraft	94	0	2	$1.9 million
Montmorency zone	94	0	0	$208,000
Missaukee	89	0	2	$1.5 million
Calhoun zone	89	0	0	$20 million
Montcalm zone	89	0	0	$15 million
Jackson zone	87	0	2	$18 million
Iosco zone	87	0	0	$202,000
Mecosta zone	86	0	0	$13 million
Oscoda zone	86	0	0	$715,000
Emmet	85	0	1	$639,000
Luce	84	1	0	$1.2 million

Every year

More

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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.