Minnesota

Storm History: Fillmore County, Minnesota

444 episodes, 688 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fillmore 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
688
Deaths
6
Injuries
34
Damage
$80 million
Episodes
444

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
Hail21500$1.2 million
Tornado97123$10 million
Flash Flood8500$66 million
Thunderstorm Wind6600$528,000
Winter Storm6400$75,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2400
Heavy Snow2300
Drought2300$190,000
Blizzard1800$8,000
High Wind1404$823,000
Flood1200$317,000
Winter Weather1226$76,000
Heat700
Cold/Wind Chill600
Dense Fog520$12,000
Excessive Heat500$45,000
Ice Storm400$10,000
Strong Wind400$2,000
Funnel Cloud200
Lightning100$18,000
Freezing Fog111$5,000

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 Fillmore County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fillmore CountyEvery warning in Fillmore 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.