Storm History: Beaverhead County, Montana
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Beaverhead County, Montana: 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
- 411
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 24
- Damage
- $3.5 million
- Episodes
- 232
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 89 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 66 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 60 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 45 | 0 | 1 | $300,000 |
| High Wind | 42 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 26 | 0 | 18 | $30,000 |
| Tornado | 19 | 0 | 0 | $3.1 million |
| Flood | 18 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Blizzard | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 6 | 0 | 5 | |
| Winter Weather | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Avalanche | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, June 6, 1976
- Tornado, May 17, 1994
- Winter Storm, March 14, 2023
- Flood, April 7, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2024
- Tornado, May 19, 1962
- Tornado, May 16, 1991
- Tornado, July 11, 1995
- Wildfire, July 31, 2000
- Wildfire, August 1, 2000
- Wildfire, September 1, 2000
- Tornado, July 3, 1988
- Tornado, May 29, 1965
- Tornado, August 2, 1959
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, August 6, 2009
- Hail, July 8, 1983
- Hail, July 9, 1963
- Hail, June 15, 1995
- Hail, August 10, 2019
- Hail, July 28, 1970
- Hail, July 7, 1958
- Hail, August 18, 2024
- Hail, August 1, 2013
- Hail, August 10, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2008
- Hail, August 13, 1999
- Hail, July 19, 1997
- Hail, August 6, 2024
- Hail, July 10, 2017
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Flood, June 28, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 2026
- Heavy Snow, April 22, 2026
- Heavy Snow, April 15, 2026
- High Wind, April 7, 2026
- High Wind, March 25, 2026
- High Wind, March 14, 2026
- Blizzard, March 11, 2026
- High Wind, February 25, 2026
- High Wind, February 17, 2026
- High Wind, January 7, 2026
- High Wind, December 18, 2025
- High Wind, December 17, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2025
- Heavy Snow, November 24, 2025
- High Wind, October 25, 2025
- Wildfire, October 1, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 9, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 2025
- Wildfire, September 3, 2025
- Wildfire, September 1, 2025
- Wildfire, August 19, 2025
- Wildfire, August 13, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2025
- Heavy Snow, June 19, 2025
- Wildfire, June 1, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 12, 2025
- Heavy Snow, April 27, 2025
- Heavy Snow, April 16, 2025
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 2025
- High Wind, March 16, 2025
- High Wind, February 25, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 10, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 2, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 29, 2024
- High Wind, December 18, 2024
- Heavy Snow, November 4, 2024
- Wildfire, November 1, 2024
- Heavy Snow, October 17, 2024
- Wildfire, October 8, 2024
- High Wind, October 4, 2024
- Wildfire, October 1, 2024
- High Wind, September 29, 2024
- Hail, September 2, 2024
- Wildfire, September 1, 2024
- Wildfire, August 23, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 22, 2024
- Hail, August 18, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 2024
- Hail, August 6, 2024
- Wildfire, August 1, 2024
- Wildfire, July 25, 2024
- Hail, June 30, 2024
- Winter Weather, June 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 2024
- Heavy Snow, May 22, 2024
- Blizzard, May 6, 2024
- Heavy Snow, April 26, 2024
- Heavy Snow, April 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 5, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 12, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2024
- High Wind, March 1, 2024
- High Wind, February 28, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2024
- High Wind, February 25, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 6, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 11, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 8, 2024
- High Wind, December 2, 2023
- Winter Storm, October 24, 2023
- Winter Weather, October 11, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2023
- Tornado, August 6, 2023
- Hail, July 1, 2023
- High Wind, June 19, 2023
- High Wind, April 27, 2023
- Heavy Snow, April 24, 2023
- Heavy Snow, April 18, 2023
- Heavy Snow, April 12, 2023
- High Wind, April 10, 2023
- Avalanche, April 8, 2023
- Flood, April 7, 2023
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 29, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 24, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 14, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 9, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 5, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 23, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 23, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 22, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 18, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 13, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 26, 2023
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2022
- Blizzard, December 23, 2022
- Blizzard, December 19, 2022
- Avalanche, December 2, 2022
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2022
- Heavy Snow, November 30, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 27, 2022
- Heavy Snow, November 6, 2022
- High Wind, November 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, October 21, 2022
- Wildfire, October 1, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 9, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 16, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2020
- Flood, July 23, 2020
- Flood, June 18, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 6, 2019
- Hail, August 10, 2019
- Hail, July 16, 2019
- Hail, July 7, 2019
- Tornado, August 20, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 11, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2018
- Hail, July 10, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2017
- Tornado, July 10, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 4, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 14, 2015
- Heavy Rain, August 21, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2014
- Flood, June 15, 2014
- Heavy Snow, September 24, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 23, 2013
- Hail, August 10, 2013
- Hail, August 1, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2012
- Hail, July 10, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 21, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2011
- Flood, January 4, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 6, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2010
- Hail, August 6, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2009
- Hail, August 31, 2008
- Hail, August 9, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2008
- Hail, August 18, 2007
- Hail, July 17, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 2006
- Hail, June 9, 2006
- Hail, June 7, 2006
- Flash Flood, July 9, 2005
- Hail, June 16, 2005
- Hail, August 4, 2004
- Hail, June 24, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 29, 2002
- Hail, August 21, 2002
- Hail, July 23, 2002
- Hail, July 14, 2002
- Hail, July 14, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2002
- Hail, August 4, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 12, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 28, 2001
- Wildfire, September 1, 2000
- Wildfire, August 8, 2000
- Wildfire, August 1, 2000
- Wildfire, July 31, 2000
- Wildfire, July 26, 2000
- Wildfire, July 2, 2000
- Hail, June 22, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 13, 2000
- Hail, August 13, 1999
- Hail, August 13, 1999
- Hail, August 13, 1999
- Hail, August 13, 1999
- Hail, August 13, 1999
- Hail, July 11, 1998
- Hail, August 2, 1997
- Tornado, July 19, 1997
- Hail, July 19, 1997
- Funnel Cloud, July 19, 1997
- Hail, July 19, 1997
- Hail, July 29, 1996
- Hail, June 14, 1996
- Tornado, September 5, 1995
- Hail, July 29, 1995
- Hail, July 12, 1995
- Tornado, July 11, 1995
- Hail, June 15, 1995
- Tornado, May 17, 1994
- Tornado, May 16, 1991
- Tornado, July 3, 1988
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 1987
- Hail, June 15, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 1985
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 1984
- Hail, July 8, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 1981
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 1978
- Tornado, June 6, 1976
- Hail, July 28, 1970
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 1970
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 24, 1969
- Tornado, May 29, 1965
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 1964
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 1964
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 14, 1963
- Hail, July 9, 1963
- Tornado, July 14, 1962
- Tornado, June 14, 1962
- Tornado, May 19, 1962
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 1961
- Tornado, August 2, 1959
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 3, 1959
- Hail, July 7, 1958
- Hail, August 5, 1957
More
Tornadoes in Beaverhead CountyEvery warning in Beaverhead County since 1986Every county in Montana
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.