Virginia

Storm History: City of Charlottesville, Virginia

426 episodes, 443 events since 1977

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in City of Charlottesville, 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
443
Deaths
0
Injuries
83
Damage
$14 million
Episodes
426

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 Storm7800$5,000
Dense Fog7400
Winter Weather5400
Heat33012$3,000
Frost/Freeze3000$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind2300$104,000
Flash Flood23065$2.6 million
Hail2101$93,000
Ice Storm1400$55,000
High Wind1200$522,000
Flood1200$18,000
Tornado1004$553,000
Strong Wind1001$21,000
Excessive Heat1000
Drought900$8.4 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Blizzard500$25,000
Heavy Snow500
Cold/Wind Chill300$5,000
Storm Surge/Tide200
Wildfire200$80,000
Tropical Storm200$5,000
Heavy Rain100
Freezing Fog100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 City of Charlottesville, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in City of CharlottesvilleEvery warning in City of Charlottesville 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 2026-10-01.