Minnesota

Storm History: Itasca County, Minnesota

500 episodes, 975 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Itasca 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
975
Deaths
5
Injuries
4
Damage
$372,000
Episodes
500

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
Hail29601$35,000
Thunderstorm Wind12201$36,000
Tornado11400$90,000
Heavy Snow9100
Flash Flood8910$210,000
Drought8100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill7500
Winter Storm2600
Blizzard2400
Cold/Wind Chill2110
Ice Storm1500
Winter Weather500
Lightning411
Strong Wind421$1,000
Flood300
Lakeshore Flood200
High Wind100
Excessive Heat100
Wildfire100

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 Itasca County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Itasca CountyEvery warning in Itasca 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.