Michigan

Storm History: Houghton County, Michigan

681 episodes, 1,005 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Houghton 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
1,005
Deaths
5
Injuries
7
Damage
$130 million
Episodes
681

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 Storm20310$114,000
Winter Weather16927$47,000
Hail11700$135,000
Blizzard9700$40,000
Lake-Effect Snow6900
High Wind6000$1.1 million
Heavy Snow5300
Thunderstorm Wind5200$272,000
Flash Flood3010$107 million
Tornado2400$30,000
Cold/Wind Chill2100
Flood2000$21 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1900
Ice Storm1700$70,000
Frost/Freeze1600
Dense Fog900
Heat600
Heavy Rain600
Excessive Heat500
Strong Wind400$9,000
Lightning200$5,000
Lakeshore Flood200
Funnel Cloud100
Seiche100
Rip Current110
Wildfire100$200,000

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 Houghton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Houghton CountyEvery warning in Houghton 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.