Utah

Storm History: Summit County, Utah

118 episodes, 226 events since 1973

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Summit 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
226
Deaths
19
Injuries
26
Damage
$8.3 million
Episodes
118

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 Snow8800$2.1 million
Winter Storm4035$755,000
Avalanche251013$29,000
Flash Flood2211$151,000
Thunderstorm Wind2110
Hail1100$85,000
High Wind500
Flood400$5.1 million
Lightning347
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Debris Flow200$150,000
Dust Storm200
Tornado100$200

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 Summit CountyEvery warning in Summit 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.