Ohio

Storm History: Ashtabula County, Ohio

602 episodes, 850 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ashtabula 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
850
Deaths
4
Injuries
37
Damage
$110 million
Episodes
602

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
Hail23005$2.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind10820$3.2 million
Tornado91129$11 million
Flash Flood8300$27 million
Lake-Effect Snow8100$9.3 million
Winter Storm8002$19 million
Heavy Snow6200$6.8 million
High Wind5200$6.1 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600$4.0 million
Flood800$16 million
Strong Wind800$287,000
Drought600$5.0 million
Waterspout500
Lightning401$207,000
Blizzard400
Cold/Wind Chill200$35,000
Heavy Rain200$34,000
Heat200
Ice Storm200$435,000
Coastal Flood100$85,000
Lakeshore Flood100
Winter Weather100$100,000
Rip Current110

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 Ashtabula County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ashtabula CountyEvery warning in Ashtabula 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.