New York

Storm History: Orange County, New York

571 episodes, 972 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Orange 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
972
Deaths
23
Injuries
69
Damage
$73 million
Episodes
571

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 Orange 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
Thunderstorm Wind23926$2.6 million
Hail19905$1.2 million
Flash Flood16923$16 million
Tornado911439$28 million
Heavy Snow5600
Winter Storm3400
Winter Weather3411
Flood3110$23 million
High Wind2711$650,000
Heavy Rain1600
Excessive Heat1210
Blizzard1100
Ice Storm1008
Drought1000
Strong Wind912$68,000
Lightning804$70,000
Heat500
Funnel Cloud300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Tropical Storm200$4,000
Coastal Flood100

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 Orange County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Orange CountyEvery warning in Orange 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.