Minnesota

Storm History: Wright County, Minnesota

413 episodes, 846 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wright 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
846
Deaths
1
Injuries
16
Damage
$86 million
Episodes
413

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
Tornado356014$57 million
Hail22900$1.5 million
Winter Storm6212
Flash Flood5300$27 million
Thunderstorm Wind3600$46,000
Blizzard1700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
Heavy Snow1300
Winter Weather1300
High Wind900$6,000
Flood900
Cold/Wind Chill800
Heat600
Excessive Heat600
Heavy Rain500
Funnel Cloud200
Lightning200$500,000
Dense Fog100
Frost/Freeze100$20,000
Ice Storm100
Strong Wind100

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 Wright County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wright CountyEvery warning in Wright 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.