NOAA Storm Events — Every US Weather Event Recorded By The National Weather Service Since 2015 With Injuries, Deaths, Damage, Magnitude And Location

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740,668 storm events from 2015-01-01 to 2026-05-31 across 55 event types (thunderstorm wind, hail, flash flood, winter storm, tornado, drought, heat, wildfire and more) from the NCEI Storm Events Database: event and episode ids, state and FIPS codes, county or forecast zone with type, begin and end times in the zone's local standard time, direct and indirect injuries and deaths, property and crop damage parsed from NWS's K/M/B notation into whole US dollars (269 billion in total), magnitude with its type (EG/MG wind, MS/ES hail), Enhanced Fujita scale for tornadoes and begin coordinates, from NOAA NCEI's yearly bulk CSV files as of 2026-09-06.

Use Cases

Catastrophe and insured-loss modelling by county and peril
Severe-weather frequency and damage trends
Weather-shock event studies for utilities, retailers and agriculture
Geospatial hazard features for property and credit models

Methodology

Latest compile of each StormEvents_details file for 2015 onward from the NCEI csvfiles directory, gunzipped and parsed; timestamps rebuilt from the YEARMONTH, DAY and HHMM columns (local standard time per cz_timezone, no offset applied); damage strings with K/M/B suffixes converted to dollars and blanks kept blank; categorical columns as published; de-duplicated on event id; rows without a begin time dropped; sorted by begin time and event id. NWS revises recent years for months after the fact, so the latest year is provisional.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. NCEI re-cuts the current and prior year's files monthly, about 75 days after the end of the reference month; refresh monthly.

Attribution

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database (ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents), compiled from National Weather Service reports; US government work, public domain.

Schema

name	type
event_id	integer
episode_id	integer
state	string
state_fips	integer
year	integer
month_name	string
event_type	string
cz_type	string
cz_fips	integer
cz_name	string
cz_timezone	string
begin_date_time	date
end_date_time	date
injuries_direct	integer
injuries_indirect	integer
deaths_direct	integer
deaths_indirect	integer
damage_property_usd	integer
damage_crops_usd	integer
magnitude	integer

Showing 20 of 24 rows

Sample Data

year	state	cz_fips	cz_name	cz_type	event_id	episode_id	event_type	month_name	state_fips	cz_timezone	end_date_time	begin_date_time	damage_property_usd
2015	OREGON	21	SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON COAST	Z	546756	91230	Frost/Freeze	January	41	PST-8	2015-01-01T10:00:00	2015-01-01T00:00:00	0
2015	NEW MEXICO	505	WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU	Z	546868	91254	Heavy Snow	January	35	MST-7	2015-01-01T13:00:00	2015-01-01T00:00:00	0
2015	ALASKA	19	HAINES BOROUGH AND LYNN CANAL	Z	547320	91317	Winter Storm	January	2	AKST-9	2015-01-02T00:00:00	2015-01-01T00:00:00	0
2015	NEW YORK	29	SOUTHEASTERN ST. LAWRENCE	Z	547594	91348	Lake-Effect Snow	January	36	EST-5	2015-01-01T10:00:00	2015-01-01T00:00:00	10000
2015	NEW YORK	87	SOUTHWESTERN ST. LAWRENCE	Z	547595	91348	Lake-Effect Snow	January	36	EST-5	2015-01-01T10:00:00	2015-01-01T00:00:00	10000

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Date Range2015-01-01 — 2026-05-31

Rows740,668

Size15.9 MB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

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