Ohio

Storm History: Stark County, Ohio

545 episodes, 813 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stark 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
813
Deaths
5
Injuries
21
Damage
$257 million
Episodes
545

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
Hail30712$89 million
Tornado153316$56 million
Thunderstorm Wind12201$3.9 million
Flash Flood10000$74 million
High Wind3400$4.2 million
Winter Storm2702$11 million
Flood2200$6.6 million
Lightning1300$546,000
Heavy Snow700$1.7 million
Drought600$3.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Strong Wind400$185,000
Ice Storm300$6.3 million
Cold/Wind Chill200$105,000
Heavy Rain200$34,000
Heat200
Blizzard210
Winter Weather100

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 Stark County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stark CountyEvery warning in Stark 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.