New Jersey

Storm History: Passaic County, New Jersey

423 episodes, 696 events since 1968

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Passaic County, New Jersey: 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
696
Deaths
18
Injuries
188
Damage
$31 million
Episodes
423

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.

Open the live radar over Passaic County

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
Flash Flood16752$9.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind10718$8.2 million
Heavy Snow8700
Winter Storm5300
Hail5202$116,000
Flood4210$9.2 million
High Wind4150$1.1 million
Winter Weather2700
Drought2200
Tornado1700$2.6 million
Heavy Rain1602
Blizzard1130
Strong Wind1002$93,000
Heat1010
Lightning614$22,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Coastal Flood500
Tropical Storm502
Excessive Heat51166
Ice Storm400
Cold/Wind Chill200
Funnel Cloud100

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 Passaic County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Passaic CountyEvery warning in Passaic County since 1986Every county in New Jersey

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.