Wisconsin

Storm History: Pierce County, Wisconsin

333 episodes, 481 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pierce 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
481
Deaths
0
Injuries
6
Damage
$37 million
Episodes
333

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
Hail16100$5.5 million
Tornado9706$26 million
Winter Storm7300
Thunderstorm Wind4100$4.7 million
Flash Flood3400$100,000
Heavy Snow1700
Winter Weather1200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Cold/Wind Chill600
Flood600
Heat600
Ice Storm400
Blizzard400
High Wind300$1.0 million
Excessive Heat300
Lightning100
Strong Wind100$100
Dense Fog100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Pierce County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pierce CountyEvery warning in Pierce 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.