Michigan

Storm History: Roscommon County, Michigan

230 episodes, 268 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Roscommon 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
268
Deaths
2
Injuries
1
Damage
$52 million
Episodes
230

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
Hail6200$44,000
Tornado5221$51 million
Thunderstorm Wind4800$316,000
Winter Storm4000$4,000
Heavy Snow2300$100,000
Flash Flood1000$346,000
Blizzard900
High Wind700$69,000
Ice Storm500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Heat100
Wildfire100
Flood100$4,000
Winter Weather100
Lake-Effect Snow100
Excessive Heat100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Roscommon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Roscommon CountyEvery warning in Roscommon 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.