NOAA snapshot Apr 30, 2026

NOAA / NCEI Storm Events Database

Severe weather,
county by county.

A report-led view of storm activity, human impact, and reported damage across the most populous county-equivalents in every state.

Coverage window2017 presentLatest records posted by NOAA
through Apr 30, 2026
01
Build a county reportStart with a state, then choose one of its population leaders.

County report · TX · rank #2

Dallas County, Texas

Population, 20252,661,397resident estimate

490 storm reports were filed here between 2017 and 2026.

These are reports, not unique storms. One event can cover a county for days; another can describe a single spot.
Storm reports490NOAA detail records
Deaths7direct + indirect
Injuries14direct + indirect
Reported damage$3.3Bproperty + crops

Figure 1

Year to year totals.

Year-to-year totals reflect both weather and reporting volume. The final bar is intentionally marked as partial because NOAA’s current release ends on Apr 30, 2026.

2025 was the peak year with 84 reports.
Reports by year2017–2026
36
17
33
18
59
19
24
20
46
21
41
22
61
23
69
24
84
25
37
26
reports filedpartial year
Reports by monthfull record
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
peak: Apr · 96 reports12-month profile

Figure 2

Apr carries the most reports.

This view shows the calendar pattern of filed records. It is useful for planning attention, but it is not a forecast and does not normalize for population, exposure, or reporting changes.

01Apr96
02Jun85
03Mar81

Figure 3

What gets filed here?

NOAA keeps the event types distinct. The mix below is a report count, not a severity ranking.

490total event records
01 · Hail212
02 · Thunderstorm Wind126
03 · Flash Flood123
04 · Tornado12
05 · Lightning11
06 · Flood6

Figure 4

Damage and human impact tell different stories.

Reported dollars are nominal as filed by NWS offices. They should not be read as a complete estimate of economic loss.

Reported damage by yearnominal USD
2017
$641K
2018
$991K
2019
$2B
2020
$95K
2021
$572K
2022
$1.4B
2023
$2.4M
2024
$5.4M
2025
$4.2M
2026
$438K
Concentration of impact
7deaths
14injuries

Health impacts can be high even when the associated damage estimate is low. This database does not record customer outages or hours without power.

Selected records

Significant injury and damage events

Showing up to 12 records by reported magnitude, damage, or impact
DateEvent typeMagnitudePeopleDamage
Oct 20, 2019Tornado$1.6B
Jun 9, 2019Thunderstorm Wind60 EG1 death · 6 injuryies$10M
Oct 8, 2018Thunderstorm Wind43 EG1 death · 5 injuryies$10K
Jun 3, 2025Flash Flood1 death · 0 injuryies$45K
Aug 22, 2022Flash Flood1 death · 0 injuryies$20K
Jun 28, 2020Lightning1 death · 0 injuryies$0
Jul 2, 2020Lightning1 death · 0 injuryies$0
Jun 6, 2021Flash Flood1 death · 0 injuryies$0
Aug 22, 2022Flash Flood$500M
Aug 22, 2022Flood$500M
Oct 20, 2019Tornado$400M
Aug 22, 2022Flash Flood$300M

Read the fine print

Source, grain, and gaps.

Where this comes from. NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database bulk CSV. The hosted snapshot includes 96,006 county-level records for the supplied top-county list, beginning January 1, 2017 and ending Apr 30, 2026. NOAA’s database covers many event types and its record length varies by event type.

How to read the counts. These are reports, not storms. A heat event can cover a county for several days; a hail report can represent one location and moment. Damage is stored as reported, nominal dollars. The database does not establish that an outage occurred.

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