Severe Weather History


The Stormiest Counties in America

RankCountyEventsDeathsDamage
#1Sedgwick County, Kansas2,89316$1.3B
#2Tarrant County, Texas2,88627$2.3B
#3Maricopa County, Arizona2,74826$3.4B
#4El Paso County, Colorado2,71012$446.3M
#5Cook County, Illinois2,63357$1.7B
#6Oklahoma County, Oklahoma2,50033$1.3B
#7Pennington County, South Dakota2,4062$80.9M
#8Tulsa County, Oklahoma2,39128$710.2M
#9Allegheny County, Pennsylvania2,3579$423.3M
#10Polk County, Iowa2,1516$265.5M
#11Greene County, Missouri2,09612$496.0M
#12Dallas County, Texas2,01246$5.3B
#13Madison County, Alabama1,98168$550.8M
#14Harris County, Texas1,93797$11.0B
#15Weld County, Colorado1,9004$400.9M
#16Pulaski County, Arkansas1,89725$597.2M
#17Caddo Parish, Louisiana1,88020$243.2M
#18Lincoln County, Nebraska1,8550$68.9M
#19Lauderdale County, Alabama1,8498$29.4M
#20Butler County, Kansas1,84430$357.3M
#21Ford County, Kansas1,7720$27.2M
#22Duval County, Florida1,7519$36.7M
#23Pima County, Arizona1,71426$235.1M
#24Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania1,7078$295.1M
#25San Bernardino County, California1,64237$1.5B
#26Jefferson County, Alabama1,606117$2.0B
#27Jackson County, Missouri1,60548$63.1M
#28Montgomery County, Maryland1,5995$52.8M
#29Denton County, Texas1,59512$974.6M
#30Laramie County, Wyoming1,5921$68.3M
#31Meade County, South Dakota1,5840$15.7M
#32Cleveland County, Oklahoma1,56145$2.8B
#33Yuma County, Colorado1,5350$12.5M
#34Davidson County, Tennessee1,53425$2.9B
#35Wake County, North Carolina1,51614$564.5M
#36Potter County, Texas1,5072$485.8M
#37Osage County, Oklahoma1,4894$48.1M
#38Randall County, Texas1,4894$299.5M
#39Fairfax County, Virginia1,4898$76.6M
#40Cherry County, Nebraska1,4630$6.7M
#41Shawnee County, Kansas1,45719$302.4M
#42St. Louis County, Missouri1,45429$1.5B
#43Sherman County, Kansas1,4502$20.9M
#44Hinds County, Mississippi1,41860$301.8M
#45Cowley County, Kansas1,41477$59.2M
#46Richland County, South Carolina1,41413$52.2M
#47Bexar County, Texas1,40957$1.6B
#48Comanche County, Oklahoma1,4058$67.9M
#49Reno County, Kansas1,3971$91.4M
#50Johnson County, Kansas1,3804$21.8M
Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events · counties ranked by total recorded severe weather events · top 50