Montana

Storm History: Custer County, Montana

419 episodes, 686 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Custer 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
686
Deaths
2
Injuries
6
Damage
$2.9 million
Episodes
419

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
Hail29612$196,000
Tornado9711$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind7803
Flash Flood6000
High Wind4700
Heavy Snow3600
Winter Storm2900
Blizzard1600
Flood1100$1.2 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Ice Storm300
Heavy Rain300
Wildfire300
Cold/Wind Chill100
Drought100
Winter Weather100

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 Custer County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Custer CountyEvery warning in Custer 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.