Minnesota

Storm History: Aitkin County, Minnesota

383 episodes, 687 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Aitkin County, Minnesota: 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
687
Deaths
3
Injuries
7
Damage
$4.8 million
Episodes
383

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
Hail15901$39,000
Heavy Snow10300
Thunderstorm Wind7700$21,000
Tornado7513$4.1 million
Drought7500
Flash Flood5300$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill4100
Blizzard2400
Winter Storm2100
Flood1800$675,000
Cold/Wind Chill1400
Ice Storm1400
Winter Weather300
Lightning200
Heat200
Excessive Heat200
Lakeshore Flood200
Strong Wind100$1,000
Heavy Rain123

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 Aitkin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Aitkin CountyEvery warning in Aitkin County since 1986Every county in Minnesota

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.