Michigan

Storm History: Iron County, Michigan

352 episodes, 425 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Iron 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
425
Deaths
3
Injuries
2
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
352

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 Storm7900$136,000
Hail7300$4.2 million
Winter Weather4410
Thunderstorm Wind3800$114,000
Blizzard3100
Tornado2702$440,000
Flash Flood2300$1.3 million
Cold/Wind Chill2220
Heavy Snow1800$600,000
Flood1500$3.9 million
Ice Storm1100$7,000
Frost/Freeze1000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
High Wind600$2.1 million
Lake-Effect Snow500
Heat300
Dense Fog300
Heavy Rain200
Excessive Heat200
Strong Wind100$1,000
Lakeshore Flood100
Wildfire100$15,000

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 Iron County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Iron CountyEvery warning in Iron 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.