Michigan

Storm History: Livingston County, Michigan

389 episodes, 604 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Livingston 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
604
Deaths
4
Injuries
51
Damage
$70 million
Episodes
389

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
Hail20601$2.4 million
Tornado124328$21 million
Thunderstorm Wind8604$4.1 million
Heavy Snow3503$79,000
Flash Flood3300$80,000
High Wind2300$30 million
Flood1800$1.3 million
Winter Storm1710$2.0 million
Heat1304
Cold/Wind Chill9010$25,000
Ice Storm900$7.3 million
Lightning701$93,000
Blizzard600
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Winter Weather300$50,000
Excessive Heat200
Drought200
Frost/Freeze200$1.3 million
Strong Wind200$7,000
Dense Fog100
Lakeshore Flood100$400,000

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 Livingston County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Livingston CountyEvery warning in Livingston 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.