Wyoming

Storm History: Big Horn County, Wyoming

317 episodes, 394 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Big Horn County, Wyoming: 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
394
Deaths
4
Injuries
9
Damage
$4.1 million
Episodes
317

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
Hail9101$538,000
Winter Storm7323
Thunderstorm Wind5500$158,000
Tornado4212$444,000
High Wind3911$15,000
Heavy Snow2000$15,000
Flood1900$2.4 million
Blizzard1100
Flash Flood1000$67,000
Cold/Wind Chill700
Wildfire702$105,000
Funnel Cloud500
Heat500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Debris Flow200$402,000
Avalanche200
Lightning100
Dense Fog100
Excessive Heat100

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 Big Horn County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Big Horn CountyEvery warning in Big Horn County since 1986Every county in Wyoming

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.