Vermont

Storm History: Bennington County, Vermont

611 episodes, 795 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bennington County, Vermont: 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
795
Deaths
1
Injuries
4
Damage
$6.0 million
Episodes
611

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.

Open the live radar over Bennington County

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
Thunderstorm Wind14700$345,000
Winter Storm11100$935,000
Winter Weather10400$1,000
Hail7700$30,000
Heavy Snow4400$5,000
High Wind4401$234,000
Flash Flood4401$1.9 million
Strong Wind4100$63,000
Flood3900$514,000
Cold/Wind Chill2910
Heat2300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2300
Frost/Freeze1800
Tornado1701$919,000
Debris Flow800$155,000
Tropical Storm700
Drought600
Excessive Heat400
Ice Storm400
Blizzard200
Lightning201$900,000
Wildfire100

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 Bennington County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bennington CountyEvery warning in Bennington County since 1986Every county in Vermont

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.