Storm History: Essex County, Vermont

465 episodes, 501 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Essex 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: 501
Deaths: 2
Injuries: 3
Damage: $7.4 million
Episodes: 465

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Winter Storm	155	1	0	$1.4 million
Winter Weather	122	1	0	$449,000
Thunderstorm Wind	48	0	0	$226,000
Hail	46	0	0	$236,000
Flash Flood	29	0	3	$3.3 million
High Wind	19	0	0	$460,000
Strong Wind	19	0	0	$156,000
Cold/Wind Chill	15	0	0
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	11	0	0
Flood	7	0	0	$301,000
Heavy Snow	7	0	0	$136,000
Tornado	6	0	0	$38,000
Heavy Rain	5	0	0
Frost/Freeze	4	0	0	$100,000
Heat	4	0	0	$500,000
Ice Storm	2	0	0	$80,000
Dense Fog	1	0	0
Blizzard	1	0	0	$10,000

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.

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Essex County Every warning in Essex County since 1986 Every 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.