Michigan

Storm History: Otsego County, Michigan

261 episodes, 327 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Otsego 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
327
Deaths
2
Injuries
45
Damage
$54 million
Episodes
261

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$87,000
Tornado55244$51 million
Hail5500$120,000
Heavy Snow4200$215,000
Thunderstorm Wind2601$1.8 million
Lake-Effect Snow1800
Flash Flood1200$8,000
Blizzard1000$20,000
High Wind1000$72,000
Ice Storm700$20,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Flood200$16,000
Heat100
Drought100
Winter Weather100
Lightning100$500,000
Excessive Heat100
Lakeshore Flood100$5,000

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 Otsego County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Otsego CountyEvery warning in Otsego 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.