Virginia

Storm History: Arlington County, Virginia

521 episodes, 620 events since 1973

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Arlington County, Virginia: 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
620
Deaths
3
Injuries
78
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
521

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
Hail8404$278,000
Thunderstorm Wind8400$10 million
Winter Storm6300$405,000
Winter Weather6210
Flash Flood5211$3.6 million
Heat51039$12,000
Dense Fog3400
Tornado2805$1.9 million
Coastal Flood2500
Excessive Heat1810
Frost/Freeze1800
High Wind1602$4.5 million
Strong Wind1601$141,000
Flood1400$705,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Drought900
Ice Storm700$20,000
Heavy Snow600$20,000
Tropical Storm6026$4.6 million
Blizzard500$15,000
Heavy Rain500
Cold/Wind Chill400
Storm Surge/Tide200$520,000

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 Arlington County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Arlington CountyEvery warning in Arlington County since 1986Every county in Virginia

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.