Wisconsin

Storm History: Door County, Wisconsin

335 episodes, 446 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Door 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
446
Deaths
3
Injuries
12
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
335

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
Hail14504$4.0 million
Winter Storm5500$65,000
Tornado5304$11 million
Heavy Snow4000
Thunderstorm Wind3803$26,000
High Wind1911$160,000
Blizzard1400$125,000
Strong Wind1400$25,000
Dense Fog1000
Drought1000
Winter Weather700
Cold/Wind Chill610
Flood600$180,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Funnel Cloud500
Flash Flood400$85,000
Excessive Heat300
Ice Storm200
Lightning200$1,000
Heat200
Waterspout200
Heavy Rain210
Lake-Effect Snow100

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 Door County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Door CountyEvery warning in Door 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.