Wisconsin

Storm History: Barron County, Wisconsin

341 episodes, 558 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Barron 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
558
Deaths
6
Injuries
51
Damage
$56 million
Episodes
341

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
Hail17011$1.6 million
Tornado154149$22 million
Winter Storm7100
Thunderstorm Wind6500$2.0 million
Flash Flood3300$30 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1521
Heavy Snow1400
Winter Weather1100
Cold/Wind Chill600
Heat600
High Wind300
Ice Storm200
Blizzard200
Excessive Heat220
Lightning100
Frost/Freeze100
Flood100
Dense Fog100

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 Barron County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Barron CountyEvery warning in Barron 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.