Storm History: Los Alamos County, New Mexico
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Los Alamos County, New Mexico: 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
- 158
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Damage
- $1.5 billion
- Episodes
- 137
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drought | 44 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 29 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 23 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Flash Flood | 17 | 0 | 0 | $9.7 million |
| Wildfire | 14 | 0 | 0 | $1.5 billion |
| Winter Storm | 10 | 0 | 2 | $500,000 |
| Tornado | 9 | 0 | 0 | $60,000 |
| High Wind | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dust Devil | 1 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Wildfire, May 4, 2000
- Wildfire, April 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 14, 2021
- Wildfire, July 11, 2025
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2001
- Tornado, October 12, 2012
- Hail, July 6, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 11, 2012
- Dust Devil, May 22, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2008
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2023
- Hail, August 19, 2016
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, June 25, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2024
- Hail, July 10, 1961
- Tornado, May 11, 2024
- Hail, July 6, 2009
- Hail, July 13, 1990
- Hail, July 20, 1990
- Hail, May 21, 2012
- Hail, September 6, 1968
- Hail, October 19, 2015
- Hail, June 18, 1965
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 2021
- Hail, May 12, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2009
Every episode, newest first
- Wildfire, June 23, 2026
- Wildfire, June 16, 2026
- Drought, June 1, 2026
- High Wind, March 14, 2026
- High Wind, February 17, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Drought, September 1, 2025
- Drought, August 1, 2025
- Wildfire, July 11, 2025
- Drought, July 1, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2025
- Drought, June 1, 2025
- Drought, May 1, 2025
- Heavy Snow, April 4, 2025
- Drought, April 1, 2025
- Wildfire, March 17, 2025
- Wildfire, March 13, 2025
- Blizzard, November 6, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2024
- Hail, July 1, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2024
- Wildfire, June 1, 2024
- Wildfire, May 24, 2024
- Tornado, May 11, 2024
- High Wind, April 15, 2024
- Drought, April 1, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 14, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 8, 2024
- Drought, March 1, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2024
- Drought, February 1, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 4, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2023
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, November 30, 2023
- Heavy Snow, November 24, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- High Wind, April 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 15, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 15, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, December 27, 2022
- High Wind, December 22, 2022
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Drought, July 1, 2022
- Wildfire, June 1, 2022
- Drought, June 1, 2022
- High Wind, May 7, 2022
- Wildfire, May 1, 2022
- Drought, May 1, 2022
- Wildfire, April 22, 2022
- Wildfire, April 5, 2022
- Drought, April 1, 2022
- Drought, March 1, 2022
- Drought, February 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2022
- Drought, January 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 31, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 14, 2021
- Drought, December 1, 2021
- Drought, November 1, 2021
- Drought, October 1, 2021
- Drought, September 1, 2021
- Drought, August 1, 2021
- Drought, July 1, 2021
- Drought, June 1, 2021
- Drought, May 1, 2021
- Drought, April 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2021
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 2021
- Drought, March 1, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 15, 2021
- Drought, February 1, 2021
- Heavy Snow, January 23, 2021
- Heavy Snow, January 18, 2021
- Drought, January 1, 2021
- Drought, December 1, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 7, 2020
- Drought, November 1, 2020
- Blizzard, October 25, 2020
- Drought, October 1, 2020
- Drought, September 1, 2020
- Drought, August 1, 2020
- Drought, July 1, 2020
- Drought, June 1, 2020
- Hail, May 25, 2020
- Drought, May 1, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 13, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 10, 2020
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 2020
- Tornado, December 27, 2019
- Heavy Snow, November 27, 2019
- Hail, June 25, 2017
- Hail, August 19, 2016
- Hail, October 19, 2015
- Funnel Cloud, August 5, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2013
- Dust Devil, May 22, 2013
- Tornado, October 12, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 11, 2012
- Hail, May 21, 2012
- Hail, May 12, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2011
- Tornado, August 3, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2009
- Hail, July 6, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2008
- Tornado, May 28, 2008
- Hail, June 22, 2006
- Hail, July 15, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2001
- Hail, October 12, 2000
- Flash Flood, August 28, 2000
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2000
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2000
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2000
- Wildfire, May 4, 2000
- Hail, July 20, 1990
- Hail, July 13, 1990
- Hail, July 14, 1989
- Hail, May 9, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 6, 1977
- Hail, September 6, 1968
- Hail, June 18, 1965
- Hail, July 10, 1961
More
Tornadoes in Los Alamos CountyEvery warning in Los Alamos County since 1986Every county in New Mexico
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.