Ohio

Storm History: Ashland County, Ohio

410 episodes, 544 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ashland County, Ohio: 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
544
Deaths
1
Injuries
22
Damage
$65 million
Episodes
410

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
Hail17601$1.9 million
Tornado117017$17 million
Flash Flood6402$8.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind6310$1.9 million
Winter Storm3902$10 million
High Wind3200$5.8 million
Flood1100$1.3 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900$200,000
Heavy Snow800$472,000
Drought500$9.0 million
Strong Wind500$80,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$55,000
Lightning300$71,000
Ice Storm300$8.9 million
Heavy Rain200$34,000
Heat200
Blizzard200

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 Ashland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ashland CountyEvery warning in Ashland County since 1986Every county in Ohio

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.