New Mexico

Storm History: Los Alamos County, New Mexico

137 episodes, 158 events since 1961

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.

Open the live radar over Los Alamos 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
Drought4400
Hail2900$50,000
Heavy Snow2300$10,000
Flash Flood1700$9.7 million
Wildfire1400$1.5 billion
Winter Storm1002$500,000
Tornado900$60,000
High Wind600
Thunderstorm Wind200
Blizzard200
Dust Devil100$30,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 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.