Pennsylvania

Storm History: Pike County, Pennsylvania

272 episodes, 356 events since 1989

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pike County, Pennsylvania: 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
356
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$65 million
Episodes
272

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
Hail9300$316,000
Thunderstorm Wind8300$709,000
Heavy Snow5000$557,000
Tornado2702$1.9 million
Winter Storm2300$10,000
Flash Flood1900$40 million
High Wind1601$1.2 million
Flood1000$12 million
Ice Storm600
Winter Weather600$50,000
Cold/Wind Chill500$15,000
Drought500$200,000
Heat300
Lightning200$20,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Strong Wind200$10,000
Blizzard200$400,000
Excessive Heat100
Frost/Freeze100$7.5 million

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 Pike County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pike CountyEvery warning in Pike County since 1986Every county in Pennsylvania

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.