Utah

Storm History: Garfield County, Utah

172 episodes, 268 events since 1972

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Garfield County, Utah: 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
268
Deaths
8
Injuries
8
Damage
$37 million
Episodes
172

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
Flash Flood14454$1.5 million
Heavy Snow3732$90,000
Winter Storm2200$500
Tornado2100$310,000
Hail1300$10,000
Thunderstorm Wind1100$500
High Wind700$202,000
Excessive Heat500
Flood200$57,000
Avalanche200
Wildfire200$35 million
Lightning101
Winter Weather101$75,000

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Garfield County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Garfield CountyEvery warning in Garfield County since 1986Every county in Utah

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.