Ohio

Storm History: Hancock County, Ohio

386 episodes, 516 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hancock 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
516
Deaths
4
Injuries
26
Damage
$285 million
Episodes
386

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
Hail16300$6.7 million
Tornado112418$103 million
Thunderstorm Wind8700$2.1 million
Flash Flood4600$123 million
High Wind3301$10 million
Flood2305$3.5 million
Winter Storm2202$6.4 million
Drought500$16 million
Heavy Snow500$850,000
Strong Wind500$87,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Cold/Wind Chill300$35,000
Heat200
Blizzard200
Heavy Rain100$34,000
Ice Storm100$13 million
Lake-Effect Snow100

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 Hancock County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hancock CountyEvery warning in Hancock 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.