Oregon

Storm History: Marion County, Oregon

85 episodes, 99 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Marion 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
99
Deaths
0
Injuries
5
Damage
$6.8 million
Episodes
85

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
Flood2500$1.0 million
Funnel Cloud1300
Tornado1202$1.3 million
Heavy Snow1100
Debris Flow1000
Heavy Rain900
Thunderstorm Wind600$35,000
Hail503$5,000
Lightning300$105,000
Frost/Freeze200
Wildfire100$4.3 million
Flash Flood100
Ice Storm100

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Marion County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Marion CountyEvery warning in Marion 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.