Wisconsin

Storm History: Wood County, Wisconsin

378 episodes, 541 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wood 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
541
Deaths
1
Injuries
32
Damage
$76 million
Episodes
378

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
Hail13900$421,000
Tornado104032$73 million
Thunderstorm Wind6800$219,000
Winter Storm4400
Flash Flood3300$2.6 million
Heavy Snow2300
Drought2100
Flood1300$50,000
Winter Weather1200
Strong Wind1200$11,000
High Wind1100$27,000
Blizzard1010
Cold/Wind Chill1000
Dense Fog900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Ice Storm600
Heat600
Heavy Rain400
Excessive Heat400
Lightning300$21,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 Wood County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wood CountyEvery warning in Wood 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.