Wisconsin

Storm History: Crawford County, Wisconsin

346 episodes, 537 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Crawford 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
537
Deaths
3
Injuries
12
Damage
$68 million
Episodes
346

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
Hail11901$3.0 million
Flash Flood10100$49 million
Tornado79010$11 million
Flood5110$5.4 million
Winter Storm4800$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind3800$199,000
Heavy Snow1900
Drought1700
Heat1010
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Winter Weather900$300
Blizzard800
High Wind701$215,000
Cold/Wind Chill600
Excessive Heat610$12,000
Ice Storm500
Strong Wind200$700
Dense Fog100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Crawford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Crawford CountyEvery warning in Crawford 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.