Michigan

Storm History: Baraga County, Michigan

489 episodes, 566 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Baraga County, Michigan: 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
566
Deaths
1
Injuries
6
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
489

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
Winter Storm12300$564,000
Winter Weather11016$77,000
Hail8800$10 million
Blizzard4300$5,000
Heavy Snow3200$4,000
Thunderstorm Wind2700$64,000
Lake-Effect Snow2200
Cold/Wind Chill1700
Flash Flood1600$9.4 million
Flood1300$3.2 million
Tornado1100
Ice Storm1000$10,000
Frost/Freeze1000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
High Wind800$38,000
Dense Fog600
Heavy Rain500
Wildfire400$2.1 million
Heat300
Excessive Heat300
Lakeshore Flood200$1,000
Seiche100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Lightning100$2,000

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 Baraga County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Baraga CountyEvery warning in Baraga County since 1986Every county in Michigan

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.