New York

Storm History: Delaware County, New York

497 episodes, 759 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Delaware County, New York: 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
759
Deaths
16
Injuries
9
Damage
$379 million
Episodes
497

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 Delaware 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
Hail20700$508,000
Thunderstorm Wind14711$1.3 million
Flash Flood104132$338 million
Tornado8501$3.4 million
Heavy Snow7600$686,000
Flood4221$34 million
Winter Storm2800
High Wind1704$510,000
Cold/Wind Chill1300$20,000
Ice Storm1000$120,000
Winter Weather500$20,000
Drought500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500$10,000
Heat300
Lightning300$121,000
Lake-Effect Snow300
Strong Wind200$10,000
Blizzard200$100,000
Heavy Rain100
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 Delaware County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Delaware CountyEvery warning in Delaware County since 1986Every county in New York

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.