Wisconsin

Storm History: Pepin County, Wisconsin

218 episodes, 260 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pepin 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
260
Deaths
0
Injuries
6
Damage
$20 million
Episodes
218

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
Hail6700$1.7 million
Winter Storm6300$500,000
Tornado2706$1.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind1900$4.7 million
Flash Flood1900$1.2 million
Heavy Snow1600
Winter Weather900
Flood700$10 million
Cold/Wind Chill600
Heat600
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Ice Storm400
Blizzard400
Excessive Heat300
High Wind200
Strong Wind100$100
Dense Fog100

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 Pepin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Pepin CountyEvery warning in Pepin 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.