Minnesota

Storm History: Roseau County, Minnesota

405 episodes, 686 events since 1966

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Roseau 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
686
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$239 million
Episodes
405

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
Tornado20202$24 million
Hail19200$252,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill5700
Winter Storm4700
Thunderstorm Wind3200$1.4 million
Heavy Snow3100
Blizzard2600
Drought2100
Flash Flood1900$10 million
Cold/Wind Chill1700$21,000
Flood1200$201 million
High Wind1200
Frost/Freeze1000
Ice Storm500$2.0 million
Heat100
Wildfire100
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Roseau County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Roseau CountyEvery warning in Roseau 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.