Storm History: Polk County, Oregon
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Polk 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
- 64
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $4.4 million
- Episodes
- 55
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flood | 26 | 0 | 0 | $4.4 million |
| Debris Flow | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 3 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 5, 2025
- High Wind, October 25, 2025
- Flood, February 23, 2025
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2025
- Flood, December 27, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2024
- High Wind, December 17, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, April 16, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, April 4, 2024
- Flood, January 28, 2024
- Flood, December 5, 2023
- Debris Flow, January 6, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 2, 2022
- Debris Flow, December 20, 2021
- Debris Flow, January 10, 2021
- Debris Flow, December 19, 2020
- Flood, September 17, 2020
- Flood, February 6, 2017
- Flood, November 24, 2016
- Funnel Cloud, June 18, 2016
- Funnel Cloud, April 22, 2016
- Flood, December 17, 2015
- Flood, December 8, 2015
- Flood, December 7, 2015
- Funnel Cloud, May 13, 2015
- Flood, December 20, 2014
- Flood, November 19, 2012
- Flood, March 29, 2012
- Flood, January 18, 2012
- Debris Flow, January 16, 2011
- Flood, December 29, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 13, 2010
- Debris Flow, January 7, 2009
- Debris Flow, January 1, 2009
- Flood, December 1, 2007
- Flood, January 2, 2007
- Flood, December 14, 2006
- Heavy Rain, November 2, 2006
- Flood, January 17, 2006
- Debris Flow, January 10, 2006
- Flood, December 28, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 24, 2004
- Funnel Cloud, April 16, 2004
- Heavy Rain, January 27, 2004
- Heavy Rain, December 12, 2003
- Funnel Cloud, June 21, 2003
- Tornado, June 21, 2003
- Heavy Rain, March 20, 2003
- Heavy Rain, March 7, 2003
- Heavy Rain, January 29, 2003
- Heavy Rain, February 22, 2002
- Heavy Rain, August 22, 2001
- Tornado, September 15, 1997
- Tornado, September 15, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 15, 1996
More
Tornadoes in Polk CountyEvery warning in Polk 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.