Ohio

Storm History: Butler County, Ohio

532 episodes, 801 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Butler 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
801
Deaths
7
Injuries
45
Damage
$113 million
Episodes
532

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
Hail17218$458,000
Tornado160131$63 million
Flash Flood14611$4.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind8704$1.5 million
Winter Weather6020
Flood5700$121,000
Winter Storm5500$525,000
Heavy Snow1700$5,000
High Wind1501$42 million
Ice Storm700
Excessive Heat500
Strong Wind400$4,000
Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill310
Heavy Rain300$3,000
Lightning210$50,000
Drought200
Cold/Wind Chill100$30,000
Frost/Freeze100$540,000
Blizzard100

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 Butler County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Butler CountyEvery warning in Butler 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.