Virginia

Storm History: Giles County, Virginia

306 episodes, 428 events since 1977

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Giles 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
428
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
306

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
Hail11500$201,000
Flash Flood10000$5.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind4601$601,000
Winter Storm3900$6,000
High Wind3501$213,000
Flood2000$1.0 million
Heavy Snow1600
Tornado1501$8.8 million
Ice Storm1400$7,000
Drought1400$210,000
Debris Flow400$16,000
Cold/Wind Chill210$3,000
Frost/Freeze200
Winter Weather200
Avalanche200$6,000
Blizzard100$5,000
Strong Wind100$40,000

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 Giles County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Giles CountyEvery warning in Giles 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.