Oregon

Storm History: Polk County, Oregon

55 episodes, 64 events since 1996

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.

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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
Flood2600$4.4 million
Debris Flow900
Heavy Rain800
Funnel Cloud500
Thunderstorm Wind300
Tornado300$6,000
Ice Storm300
Frost/Freeze200
High Wind200
Flash Flood100
Winter Storm100
Heavy Snow100

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 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.