Vermont

Storm History: Franklin County, Vermont

591 episodes, 910 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Franklin 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
910
Deaths
4
Injuries
12
Damage
$528 million
Episodes
591

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 Storm26201$2.7 million
Winter Weather17510$961,000
Hail9801$655,000
Thunderstorm Wind8701$1.4 million
Strong Wind5300$495,000
High Wind4501$2.2 million
Flash Flood3800$514 million
Flood3620$1.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill2700
Tornado2407$800,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2100
Heat1100$1.0 million
Heavy Snow900$261,000
Frost/Freeze700$1.0 million
Ice Storm400$1.0 million
Lakeshore Flood400$1.0 million
Heavy Rain300
Lightning211$40,000
Blizzard200$50,000
Dense Fog100$5,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 Franklin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Franklin CountyEvery warning in Franklin 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.