New Hampshire

Storm History: Strafford County, New Hampshire

439 episodes, 558 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Strafford County, New Hampshire: 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
558
Deaths
1
Injuries
24
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
439

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
Hail136011$7,000
Heavy Snow12001$400,000
Thunderstorm Wind5710$8,000
Winter Storm3400
Strong Wind3105$4,000
Lightning2507$533,000
Drought2300$9.6 million
Winter Weather2100
Flood1900$3.2 million
High Wind1700$26,000
Tornado1600$7.9 million
Flash Flood1400$2.4 million
Cold/Wind Chill1300
Blizzard1000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Ice Storm300$2.8 million
Heavy Rain200
Heat200
Tropical Storm200
Coastal Flood100
Freezing Fog100
Debris Flow100$53,000
Frost/Freeze100
Excessive Heat100

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 Strafford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Strafford CountyEvery warning in Strafford County since 1986Every county in New Hampshire

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.