Montana

Storm History: Park County, Montana

584 episodes, 900 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Park 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
900
Deaths
10
Injuries
10
Damage
$168,000
Episodes
584

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
Winter Storm33010
High Wind16300
Thunderstorm Wind12501$5,000
Hail9500
Heavy Snow9000
Blizzard2500
Flash Flood2100
Wildfire1503
Avalanche1193
Tornado800$33,000
Flood800$130,000
Drought500
Winter Weather200
Lightning103
Debris Flow100

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 Park County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Park CountyEvery warning in Park 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.