Wisconsin

Storm History: Bayfield County, Wisconsin

412 episodes, 586 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bayfield 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
586
Deaths
6
Injuries
10
Damage
$6.5 million
Episodes
412

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
Hail16400$432,000
Heavy Snow13520
Thunderstorm Wind6113$1.5 million
Flash Flood5011$3.7 million
Tornado4916$811,000
Drought4400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1710
Winter Storm1200
Ice Storm1100
Lake-Effect Snow1100
Blizzard800
Winter Weather600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Flood400$16,000
Lakeshore Flood300$15,000
Strong Wind200$6,000
Frost/Freeze100
Heat100
Excessive Heat100
High Wind100

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 Bayfield County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bayfield CountyEvery warning in Bayfield 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.