Wisconsin

Storm History: Iron County, Wisconsin

404 episodes, 441 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Iron 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
441
Deaths
3
Injuries
9
Damage
$2.8 million
Episodes
404

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
Heavy Snow17100
Hail5300$45,000
Drought4900
Lake-Effect Snow4100
Tornado2413$429,000
Thunderstorm Wind2201
Winter Storm1400
Flash Flood1300$2,000
Ice Storm1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Blizzard800
Cold/Wind Chill500
Winter Weather512
Flood300$1.3 million
Lightning202$1.0 million
Strong Wind200$6,000
Heat201
High Wind100$2,000
Frost/Freeze100
Excessive Heat100
Lakeshore Flood100
High Surf110

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 Iron County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Iron CountyEvery warning in Iron 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.