Oregon

Storm History: Malheur County, Oregon

150 episodes, 181 events since 1966

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Malheur 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
181
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$104 million
Episodes
150

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.

Open the live radar over Malheur County

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
Thunderstorm Wind4800$501,000
Heavy Snow4300$100 million
Hail2500$2.8 million
Flash Flood2300$20,000
High Wind1300
Flood900
Tornado800$300,000
Heavy Rain500
Wildfire500
Funnel Cloud100
Debris Flow100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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

More

Tornadoes in Malheur CountyEvery warning in Malheur 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.