Disaster-history hazard lens
Multi-hazard severe storms without a more specific primary category. Compare official county histories below while keeping FEMA administrative declarations separate from NOAA observed-event reports.
Data updated Aug 21, 2026
These counts do not measure current danger, probability, severity, loss, or personal exposure. A higher rank means only that a county has more records within the same official source and exact coverage window. FEMA and NOAA counts are never added together.
Administrative records
Federal administrative declarations that include a county designation and map to this hazard category. A declaration is a government action, not a physical-event census.
50 counties have a positive severe storm count in this source.
Coverage: Jan 1, 1964 – Aug 21, 2026
Rankings compare only this source and exact coverage window. Equal counts share a rank.
Observed-event reports
Distinct NOAA Storm Events records explicitly coded to a county and mapped to this hazard category. Forecast-zone and marine-zone records are excluded from county totals.
50 counties have a positive severe storm count in this source.
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – Sep 25, 2025
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Providence County, Rhode Island | 24 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – Apr 12, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | King County, Washington | 22 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – Apr 16, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chittenden County, Vermont | 9 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 3, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clark County, Nevada | 27 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 15, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honolulu County, Hawaii | 571 |
| 2 | Cass County, North Dakota | 6 |
| 3 | Hillsborough County, New Hampshire | 3 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 18, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cook County, Illinois | 61 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 19, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middlesex County, Massachusetts | 15 |
| 2 | Hartford County, Connecticut | 12 |
| 3 | Wayne County, Michigan | 1 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 20, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montgomery County, Maryland | 27 |
| 2 | Bergen County, New Jersey | 23 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 24, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania | 29 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 25, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maricopa County, Arizona | 145 |
| 2 | Laramie County, Wyoming | 15 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 26, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fresno County, California | 107 |
| 2 | Multnomah County, Oregon | 34 |
| 3 | Los Angeles County, California | 9 |
| 4 | Ventura County, California | 8 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 27, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hennepin County, Minnesota | 49 |
| 2 | New Castle County, Delaware | 39 |
| 3 | Fairfax County, Virginia | 17 |
| 4 | Greenville County, South Carolina | 16 |
| 4 | Milwaukee County, Wisconsin | 16 |
| 6 | Jefferson County, Kentucky | 10 |
| 7 | Marion County, Indiana | 7 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 28, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernalillo County, New Mexico | 16 |
| 2 | Kanawha County, West Virginia | 15 |
| 3 | Harrison County, Mississippi | 9 |
| 4 | East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana | 6 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 29, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ada County, Idaho | 17 |
| 1 | Kings County, New York | 17 |
| 3 | Salt Lake County, Utah | 9 |
| 4 | Oklahoma County, Oklahoma | 6 |
| 5 | Yellowstone County, Montana | 5 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 30, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Paso County, Colorado | 250 |
| 2 | Wake County, North Carolina | 25 |
| 3 | Douglas County, Nebraska | 8 |
Coverage: Jan 1, 1996 – May 31, 2026
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| Rank | County | County-event records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polk County, Iowa | 350 |
| 2 | Pulaski County, Arkansas | 64 |
| 3 | Miami-Dade County, Florida | 28 |
| 4 | Jefferson County, Alabama | 26 |
| 5 | Minnehaha County, South Dakota | 11 |
| 6 | St. Louis County, Missouri | 8 |
| 6 | Harris County, Texas | 8 |
| 8 | Fulton County, Georgia | 6 |
| 8 | Johnson County, Kansas | 6 |
| 8 | Franklin County, Ohio | 6 |
| 11 | Shelby County, Tennessee | 2 |
