Tornadoes by ZIP Code

Source period December 2025. Recomputed by ZipCheckup from the cited federal source.

From 2015 through 2024, the U.S. recorded 15,158 county-level tornado events across 2,514 counties in 49 states, with 508 direct deaths and 5,360 direct injuries, as of December 2025.

By state

We report two independent facts side by side and do not rank states. A larger count reflects the size of a state's inventory and its reporting activity, not a judgment about water safety.

How we compute this

We use NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information Storm Events database and count every event recorded as a tornado at the county level between 2015 and 2024. Over that decade the database logs 15,158 county tornado events across 2,514 counties in 49 states, with 508 direct deaths and 5,360 direct injuries.

A single tornado that travels across more than one county is recorded once in each county it touches, so our national figure counts county-level tornado events rather than unique storms. We report only direct deaths and injuries — those the National Weather Service attributes directly to the tornado.

Counts are grouped by state and recompute on every build; the underlying records cover the years 2015 through 2024. Counties with no recorded tornadoes in that window are omitted, never shown as zero, and a small number of events in U.S. territories are included in the national totals but not assigned to a state.

Frequently asked questions

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