Storm History: Aitkin County, Minnesota
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 159 | 0 | 1 | $39,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 103 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 77 | 0 | 0 | $21,000 |
| Tornado | 75 | 1 | 3 | $4.1 million |
| Drought | 75 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 53 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 41 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 24 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 21 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 18 | 0 | 0 | $675,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lakeshore Flood | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 2 | 3 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, August 6, 1969
- Flood, April 6, 2001
- Tornado, June 12, 2024
- Tornado, July 3, 1985
- Tornado, September 8, 1977
- Tornado, July 28, 1978
- Tornado, July 16, 1952
- Hail, June 23, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2025
- Hail, July 6, 2024
- Hail, July 6, 2017
- Tornado, June 30, 1968
- Tornado, June 25, 1973
- Tornado, June 12, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 1994
- Strong Wind, May 22, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2014
- Hail, June 19, 1994
- Tornado, July 3, 1955
- Tornado, June 30, 1994
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, August 31, 2018
- Hail, July 26, 2021
- Hail, September 16, 2021
- Hail, July 18, 2020
- Hail, June 28, 1991
- Hail, September 5, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 23, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 30, 2019
- Hail, August 27, 2007
- Hail, September 5, 1990
- Hail, July 17, 2017
- Hail, July 5, 2015
- Hail, August 3, 2024
- Hail, July 27, 2023
- Hail, June 27, 2022
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 29, 2026
- Drought, June 9, 2026
- Hail, May 25, 2026
- Heavy Snow, April 2, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Blizzard, March 12, 2026
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Drought, January 1, 2026
- Heavy Snow, December 9, 2025
- Drought, December 1, 2025
- Heavy Snow, November 25, 2025
- Drought, November 18, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 15, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2025
- Hail, July 27, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2025
- Hail, June 23, 2025
- Hail, May 15, 2025
- Hail, April 17, 2025
- Blizzard, April 1, 2025
- Ice Storm, March 28, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 18, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Hail, August 3, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 31, 2024
- Hail, July 6, 2024
- Tornado, June 12, 2024
- Hail, May 17, 2024
- Drought, April 1, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 24, 2024
- Drought, March 1, 2024
- Drought, February 1, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Hail, September 5, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Hail, July 27, 2023
- Drought, July 25, 2023
- Drought, July 11, 2023
- Blizzard, April 16, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2023
- Blizzard, March 11, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 3, 2023
- Heavy Snow, December 21, 2022
- Blizzard, December 13, 2022
- Hail, September 17, 2022
- Hail, August 17, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 2022
- Hail, June 27, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 23, 2022
- Hail, June 20, 2022
- Tornado, May 29, 2022
- Tornado, May 18, 2022
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2022
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2022
- Heavy Snow, February 21, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 2, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2022
- Blizzard, December 26, 2021
- Drought, December 1, 2021
- Drought, November 1, 2021
- Drought, October 1, 2021
- Hail, September 16, 2021
- Drought, September 1, 2021
- Drought, August 1, 2021
- Hail, July 26, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2021
- Drought, July 20, 2021
- Heavy Snow, March 10, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 6, 2021
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Heavy Snow, November 10, 2020
- Tornado, August 14, 2020
- Hail, August 8, 2020
- Hail, August 7, 2020
- Hail, July 18, 2020
- Flood, July 17, 2020
- Hail, July 16, 2020
- Tornado, July 8, 2020
- Drought, July 7, 2020
- Heavy Snow, January 17, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2019
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2019
- Lakeshore Flood, December 1, 2019
- Heavy Snow, November 26, 2019
- Flash Flood, September 30, 2019
- Hail, September 5, 2019
- Tornado, August 26, 2019
- Hail, July 14, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 30, 2019
- Heavy Snow, April 11, 2019
- Heavy Snow, March 9, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 6, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 26, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 21, 2019
- Heavy Snow, December 30, 2018
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, September 14, 2018
- Hail, September 2, 2018
- Hail, August 31, 2018
- Hail, August 26, 2018
- Hail, July 28, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 11, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2018
- Hail, June 28, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2018
- Hail, May 29, 2018
- Hail, May 28, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2018
- Heavy Rain, May 8, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 30, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 26, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 5, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2018
- Hail, September 22, 2017
- Hail, September 20, 2017
- Flood, July 21, 2017
- Hail, July 17, 2017
- Hail, July 6, 2017
- Ice Storm, December 25, 2016
- Blizzard, November 17, 2016
- Hail, September 21, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2016
- Hail, July 23, 2016
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 11, 2016
- Hail, June 25, 2016
- Tornado, June 19, 2016
- Hail, March 8, 2016
- Hail, August 8, 2015
- Hail, July 12, 2015
- Hail, July 5, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 22, 2015
- Heavy Snow, November 10, 2014
- Hail, July 26, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2014
- Heavy Snow, March 27, 2014
- Heavy Snow, March 17, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 27, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 8, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 4, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 30, 2013
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 11, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 2, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 31, 2013
- Tornado, August 29, 2013
- Flood, May 1, 2013
- Flood, April 30, 2013
- Heavy Snow, April 22, 2013
- Heavy Snow, April 11, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 9, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 21, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Hail, August 4, 2012
- Hail, July 4, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2012
- Flood, July 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2012
- Flood, June 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2012
- Flood, May 26, 2012
- Blizzard, February 28, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2011
- Heat, July 16, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2011
- Flood, May 5, 2011
- Flood, April 11, 2011
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 18, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 30, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 20, 2010
- Flood, December 7, 2010
- Heavy Snow, November 29, 2010
- Flood, November 1, 2010
- Hail, September 2, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2010
- Tornado, June 17, 2010
- Strong Wind, May 22, 2010
- Winter Weather, May 7, 2010
- Ice Storm, January 22, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2009
- Drought, October 1, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2009
- Hail, April 22, 2009
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2009
- Winter Storm, March 31, 2009
- Winter Storm, March 9, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 13, 2009
- Heavy Snow, January 3, 2009
- Heavy Snow, December 30, 2008
- Heavy Snow, December 20, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 15, 2008
- Blizzard, December 13, 2008
- Hail, August 28, 2008
- Hail, July 11, 2008
- Hail, June 27, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 2008
- Blizzard, April 10, 2008
- Winter Storm, April 5, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 9, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 24, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Hail, August 27, 2007
- Drought, August 1, 2007
- Hail, June 7, 2007
- Hail, May 18, 2007
- Hail, April 21, 2007
- Winter Storm, April 2, 2007
- Blizzard, March 1, 2007
- Drought, March 1, 2007
- Blizzard, February 23, 2007
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 3, 2007
- Drought, February 1, 2007
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.