North Dakota

Storm History: Billings County, North Dakota

333 episodes, 386 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Billings County, North Dakota: 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
386
Deaths
0
Injuries
5
Damage
$7.1 million
Episodes
333

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
Hail9903$2.3 million
High Wind6201$20,000
Blizzard4801$4.3 million
Tornado4700$243,000
Winter Storm2300
Drought2300
Heavy Snow1900
Thunderstorm Wind1800$22,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1400
Flash Flood900$60,000
Cold/Wind Chill800
Lightning400$10,000
Winter Weather400
Flood300$100,000
Wildfire200
Heavy Rain100
Excessive Heat100
Dense Smoke100

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Billings County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Billings CountyEvery warning in Billings County since 1986Every county in North Dakota

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.