Michigan

Storm History: Eaton County, Michigan

247 episodes, 314 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Eaton 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
314
Deaths
2
Injuries
53
Damage
$92 million
Episodes
247

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
Tornado93253$62 million
Hail7900$990,000
Thunderstorm Wind3700$1.1 million
Winter Storm2900$1.1 million
Flash Flood2500$3.6 million
Heavy Snow1400
High Wind800$13 million
Winter Weather700
Ice Storm500$5.5 million
Blizzard500
Lake-Effect Snow400
Flood400$4.3 million
Funnel Cloud100
Dense Fog100
Strong Wind100$1,000
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 Eaton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Eaton CountyEvery warning in Eaton 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.