New Mexico

Storm History: Taos County, New Mexico

200 episodes, 493 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Taos 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
493
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
200

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
Drought23200
Heavy Snow6700
Winter Storm5402$7.6 million
High Wind2500
Tornado1800$130,000
Wildfire1700$2.1 million
Blizzard1600
Dust Storm1500
Hail1400$10,000
Flash Flood1300$702,000
Thunderstorm Wind1000$40,000
Avalanche500
Funnel Cloud200
Cold/Wind Chill110
Lightning101
Dust Devil100$50,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
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.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Taos CountyEvery warning in Taos 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.