Ohio

Storm History: Athens County, Ohio

440 episodes, 638 events since 1969

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Athens 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
638
Deaths
3
Injuries
23
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
440

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
Hail11902$564,000
Thunderstorm Wind10808$3.0 million
Flash Flood10710$5.9 million
Flood8500$12 million
Tornado46013$3.7 million
Heavy Snow3000
Cold/Wind Chill1900$2,000
Winter Weather1910
Winter Storm1800$85,000
Strong Wind1600$89,000
High Wind1400$130,000
Drought1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1110$150,000
Heat1000
Heavy Rain800
Excessive Heat800
Frost/Freeze400
Ice Storm300
Lightning100$40,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 Athens County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Athens CountyEvery warning in Athens 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.