Virginia

Storm History: Brunswick County, Virginia

265 episodes, 335 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brunswick 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
335
Deaths
1
Injuries
6
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
265

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
Thunderstorm Wind7600$190,000
Hail7200$114,000
Tornado4806$3.6 million
Flash Flood3800$306,000
Winter Weather3100
Winter Storm2800$31,000
Heavy Rain1700
Flood500$4,000
Drought300$4.1 million
Ice Storm300$65,000
Frost/Freeze300
Excessive Heat300
Heat200
Tropical Storm210$6.2 million
Heavy Snow200$1,000
High Wind100$3,000
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 Brunswick County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brunswick CountyEvery warning in Brunswick 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.