Oregon

Storm History: Wheeler County, Oregon

210 episodes, 316 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wheeler 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
316
Deaths
4
Injuries
1
Damage
$1.0 million
Episodes
210

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 Snow10920
Wildfire5500
High Wind3710$20,000
Hail2001
Winter Storm2000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1500
Excessive Heat1200
Flash Flood1100$16,000
Frost/Freeze600
Blizzard500
Flood500$1.0 million
Tornado400
Heat400
Ice Storm400
Lightning210
Thunderstorm Wind200$1,000
Debris Flow200
Heavy Rain100
Strong Wind100$500
Dust Storm100

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

More

Tornadoes in Wheeler CountyEvery warning in Wheeler 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.