Wisconsin

Storm History: Ashland County, Wisconsin

410 episodes, 492 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ashland County, Wisconsin: 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
492
Deaths
5
Injuries
3
Damage
$798,000
Episodes
410

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
Heavy Snow14300
Hail9200$5,000
Tornado5110$364,000
Drought4800
Thunderstorm Wind3900$150,000
Lake-Effect Snow2400
Flash Flood2210$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1300
Winter Storm1200
Ice Storm1000
Flood800$189,000
Blizzard700
Cold/Wind Chill500
Winter Weather400
Lakeshore Flood400
Strong Wind200$6,000
Lightning203$80,000
High Wind100$2,000
Frost/Freeze100
Heat100
Excessive Heat100
Rip Current110
High Surf120

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 Ashland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ashland CountyEvery warning in Ashland County since 1986Every county in Wisconsin

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.