Oregon

Storm History: Union County, Oregon

409 episodes, 614 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Union 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
614
Deaths
5
Injuries
9
Damage
$4.8 million
Episodes
409

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
Heavy Snow20034$20,000
High Wind10200$940,000
Hail9302$44,000
Wildfire4100
Excessive Heat2100
Blizzard2000$150,000
Winter Storm2000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2000
Flash Flood1600$2.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind1301$443,000
Lightning1000$79,000
Strong Wind800$3,000
Heat700
Heavy Rain600
Flood600$1.1 million
Winter Weather500$20,000
Ice Storm500
Frost/Freeze500
Debris Flow400
Cold/Wind Chill310
Dust Storm300
Tornado100$3,000
Funnel Cloud100
Avalanche112
Freezing Fog100$50,000
Drought100
Dense Fog100

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 Union CountyEvery warning in Union 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.