Ice Storm in Utah
Every ice storm event the National Weather Service has filed in Utah, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Freezing rain accumulating a quarter inch or more of ice, or less where it caused significant damage.
The most significant on the map
The most significant ice storm episodes in Utah.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 6
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 473
- Damage
- None recorded
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Ice Storm in Utah, January 24, 2013A rare freezing rain event occurred in Utah on January 24. Very cold air was trapped in valley locations due to a persistent inversion; when a weather disturbance brought precipitation to the area, and the system was too weak to break the inversion, freezing rain occurred at the…
- Ice Storm in Utah, January 26 to 27, 2005Southwest flow ahead of a Pacific storm system brought mid-level moisture from the subtropics into northern Utah. Clouds cleared out long enough on the evening of the 26th to allow for sufficient radiational cooling to take place.
- Ice Storm in Utah, January 9 to 10, 2019Patchy freezing rain was reported across the West Desert producing slick roads near the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground.
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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.