Minnesota

Storm History: Mille Lacs County, Minnesota

307 episodes, 400 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mille Lacs 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
400
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$1.8 million
Episodes
307

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
Tornado10312$1.2 million
Hail10001$188,000
Winter Storm6400
Thunderstorm Wind2902$45,000
Flash Flood2100$350,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1900
Blizzard1700
Heavy Snow1100
Cold/Wind Chill800
Heat600
Winter Weather600
High Wind400$10,000
Flood400
Frost/Freeze200$20,000
Excessive Heat200
Funnel Cloud100
Strong Wind100
Dense Fog100
Ice Storm100

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 Mille Lacs County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Mille Lacs CountyEvery warning in Mille Lacs 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.