Wisconsin

Storm History: Forest County, Wisconsin

308 episodes, 365 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Forest 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
365
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$6.0 million
Episodes
308

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
Hail9400$140,000
Winter Storm5800
Heavy Snow3900
Drought3800
Tornado3303$5.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind2500$123,000
Ice Storm1000
Blizzard900$8,000
Cold/Wind Chill900
Winter Weather800
Flood700
Strong Wind700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Dense Fog600
Flash Flood600$154,000
High Wind400$11,000
Heat200
Frost/Freeze200
Lightning100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Forest County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Forest CountyEvery warning in Forest 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.