Michigan

Storm History: Schoolcraft County, Michigan

378 episodes, 556 events since 1975

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Schoolcraft 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
556
Deaths
5
Injuries
13
Damage
$4.3 million
Episodes
378

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 Storm14310$30,000
Winter Weather8234$150,000
Blizzard8117$86,000
Hail5300$502,000
Lake-Effect Snow4200
Heavy Snow2500
Cold/Wind Chill1700
Ice Storm1700$35,000
Tornado1602$1.4 million
High Wind1500$2.1 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1500
Thunderstorm Wind1200$49,000
Frost/Freeze1100
Dense Fog800
Flash Flood700$15,000
Flood300$2,000
Wildfire200
Lakeshore Flood200$1,000
Strong Wind200$2,000
Heavy Rain100
Funnel Cloud100
Seiche100$2,000

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 Schoolcraft County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Schoolcraft CountyEvery warning in Schoolcraft 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.