Ohio

Storm History: Geauga County, Ohio

529 episodes, 688 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Geauga 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
688
Deaths
2
Injuries
26
Damage
$58 million
Episodes
529

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
Hail19710$6.5 million
Tornado9305$4.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind8110$1.4 million
Winter Storm6302$12 million
Heavy Snow6200$6.6 million
Flash Flood6100$12 million
Lake-Effect Snow4600$5.4 million
High Wind4300$5.5 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$1.0 million
Flood600$406,000
Lightning502$211,000
Drought500$2.0 million
Strong Wind500$140,000
Winter Weather3017
Cold/Wind Chill200$45,000
Heavy Rain200$34,000
Heat200
Blizzard200
Ice Storm100$400,000
Lakeshore Flood100

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 Geauga County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Geauga CountyEvery warning in Geauga 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.