Wisconsin

Storm History: Buffalo County, Wisconsin

359 episodes, 511 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Buffalo 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
511
Deaths
1
Injuries
10
Damage
$30 million
Episodes
359

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
Hail15000$4.1 million
Tornado8107$11 million
Winter Storm6200
Flash Flood5500$13 million
Thunderstorm Wind4802$340,000
Flood2100$618,000
Heavy Snow2000
Drought1400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Winter Weather1010$569,000
Cold/Wind Chill700
Ice Storm700
Heat700
Blizzard601
Excessive Heat600
High Wind500$116,000
Strong Wind100$200

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 Buffalo County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Buffalo CountyEvery warning in Buffalo 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.