Vermont

Storm History: Chittenden County, Vermont

686 episodes, 1,229 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Chittenden 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
1,229
Deaths
13
Injuries
8
Damage
$54 million
Episodes
686

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
Winter Storm27142$3.9 million
Hail22401$3.5 million
Winter Weather17730$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind15623$1.5 million
Flash Flood9800$22 million
Strong Wind6600$640,000
High Wind6401$5.1 million
Flood3510$1.4 million
Cold/Wind Chill2800$100,000
Tornado2400$2.8 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2300
Heat1630$750,000
Heavy Snow1100$402,000
Lightning1000$380,000
Heavy Rain800$50,000
Frost/Freeze700$1.9 million
Ice Storm401$2.5 million
Lakeshore Flood400$5.0 million
Blizzard200$50,000
Dense Fog100$5,000

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 Chittenden County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Chittenden CountyEvery warning in Chittenden 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.