139
Recorded events
0
Direct deaths
0
Direct injuries
$100K
Property damage
Heavy Rain in El Dorado County, California: 139 recorded events between 1996 and 2025. The strongest on record measured 0. That places the county #17 nationally and #2 statewide for this hazard.
Decade by decade
Heavy Rain in El Dorado County, California: events per decade
Reporting practice changed over time — early decades are undercounted, not calmer.
The busiest decade for heavy rain in El Dorado County is the 2010s, when 112 of the county's 139 recorded events were logged. Comparing decades is useful for spotting active periods, but the earliest years are thin because systematic reporting for this hazard began later.
Within the El Dorado County archive, heavy rain makes up 58.4% of all recorded severe weather across 9 hazard types. Nationally the county sits at #17 for this hazard and #2 within California, putting it in the 99.3 percentile of all U.S. counties.
Seasonality
Events by month
Oct is the peak month for heavy rain in El Dorado County with 26 recorded events, while Aug is the quietest. Seasonality here is a property of the archive as much as the climate: reports cluster where population and spotter networks are densest.
Most recent
Latest recorded events
| Date | Location | Magnitude | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 2025 | POMINS | 0 | $0 |
| Feb 4, 2025 | POMINS | 0 | $0 |
| Dec 21, 2024 | POMINS | 0 | $0 |
| Nov 25, 2024 | POMINS | 0 | $0 |
| Nov 22, 2024 | TAHOMA | 0 | $0 |
| Sep 18, 2024 | SOUTH LAKE TAHOE ARP | 0 | $0 |
| Aug 3, 2024 | LAKE TAHOE ARPT | 0 | $0 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | TWIN BRIDGES | 0 | $0 |
| Nov 18, 2023 | MEYERS | 0 | $0 |
| Nov 15, 2023 | TWIN BRIDGES | 0 | $0 |
Other hazards here
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From the record
What the reports say
Written by National Weather Service staff at the time of the event · public domain
A mesonet station (FW7537-Fallen Leaf) located 4.0 mi WNW of Meyers, CA, a mesonet station (RWBC1-Baron) located 1 WSW of Meyers, CA, and a mesonet station (EW3758) located 1.0 mi NNE of Meyers, CA, reported rainfall storm totals of 1.11 inches, 0.93 inches, and 0.67 inches respectively.
CoCoRahs Observers, trained spotter, and Mesonet/ASOS sites reported rainfall amounts 1.0-2.0 around Echo Lake, 2.0-4.0 from Echo Summit to Meyers, CA; and 6.0-8.0 reported from Meyers, CA to South Lake Tahoe, CA.||A trained spotter located 2.0mi NW of Meyers, CA (COCORAHS STATION CA-ED-20) reported 24 hour total for rain-snow melt of 8.40 inches. The trained spotter also reported 4 inches of snow fell with SWE of 1.14 inches.
Several series of waves containing heavy rainfall hit northern California during a high impact atmospheric river event. The last series of waves that occurred Dec. 1st and Dec. 2nd dropped an additional 1-2 inches of rainfall in the motherlode region…on top of the 4-8 inches that had already fallen previously in the first series of waves. Grounds became overly saturated, which caused trees to collapse from saturated soils and heavy absorption of water. At approximately 8 am on Dec. 4th, one oak tree fell on a vehicle that was traveling 40 mph in a Ford F-150 pickup truck on westbound Green Valley Road, approaching Ponderosa Road, killing a 48 year old man after failing to avoid the falling oak tree. The other passenger in the back of the vehicle, a 10 year old boy, was unharmed.
Quick answers
Frequently asked
How many heavy rain events are on record in El Dorado County, California?
139 heavy rain events are recorded in El Dorado County between 1996 and 2025, causing 0 direct deaths.
What is the strongest heavy rain recorded in El Dorado County?
The strongest heavy rain on record in El Dorado County measured 0.
Where does the heavy rain data for El Dorado County come from?
All events come from the NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database, the federal public-domain archive of severe weather reports. Dates are UTC, damage is as reported and not inflation-adjusted, and the most recent entries may still be revised.
Cite this page
“Heavy Rain in El Dorado County, California.” Severe Weather History. severeweatherhistory.com/county/california/el-dorado-county/heavy-rain/ · Data: NOAA/NCEI, FEMA, U.S. Census — public domain.