Minnesota

Storm History: Beltrami County, Minnesota

507 episodes, 1,020 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Beltrami 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
1,020
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
507

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
Tornado27600$4.3 million
Hail24600$840,000
Winter Storm10900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill8200
Drought6100
Heavy Snow6000
Flash Flood5220$86,000
Thunderstorm Wind3700$15 million
Cold/Wind Chill3300$42,000
Frost/Freeze2100
Blizzard1600
High Wind1100$2,000
Flood800$85,000
Ice Storm500
Heat200
Lightning100$10,000

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 Beltrami County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Beltrami CountyEvery warning in Beltrami 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.