Oregon

Storm History: Lake County, Oregon

508 episodes, 705 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lake County, Oregon: 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
705
Deaths
5
Injuries
4
Damage
$4.6 million
Episodes
508

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
High Wind24200
Frost/Freeze14300
Heavy Snow8620
Wildfire7500$4.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill5900
Winter Storm3200
Hail2000$55,000
Blizzard1900
Cold/Wind Chill600
Excessive Heat500
Lightning300
Flood300$450,000
Winter Weather334$100,000
Tornado200
Flash Flood200
Thunderstorm Wind200$25,000
Funnel Cloud100
Avalanche100
Dust Storm100

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.

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lake CountyEvery warning in Lake County since 1986Every county in Oregon

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.