Montana

Storm History: Glacier County, Montana

234 episodes, 523 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Glacier 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
523
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$693,000
Episodes
234

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
High Wind23800$3,000
Hail8800$60,000
Heavy Snow3000
Blizzard2600
Winter Storm2500
Thunderstorm Wind2400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2200
Heavy Rain1700
Tornado1500$630,000
Flood1300
Flash Flood1103
Avalanche700
Wildfire700

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.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Glacier CountyEvery warning in Glacier 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.