Wisconsin

Storm History: Dunn County, Wisconsin

338 episodes, 504 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dunn 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
504
Deaths
25
Injuries
86
Damage
$66 million
Episodes
338

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
Hail16210$1.8 million
Tornado1112184$61 million
Winter Storm8111$50,000
Thunderstorm Wind5100$2.3 million
Flash Flood3000$430,000
Heavy Snow1600
Winter Weather1300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Cold/Wind Chill600
Heat600
Ice Storm400
Blizzard410
High Wind300
Flood200
Strong Wind200$300
Excessive Heat200
Dense Fog100
Lightning111

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 Dunn County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dunn CountyEvery warning in Dunn 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.