NOAA STORM EVENTS · COMPLETE YEARS 2016–2025HISTORICAL REPORTS, NOT A FORECAST OR RISK SCORE
STORM EVENTLEDGERCOUNTY REPORTS · SEASONALITY · IMPACT
EVENT FILE / 09003MINIMUM 5 REPORTS

HARTFORD · CT

Lightning history

NOAA records coded as Lightning in Hartford during the ten complete years from 2016 through 2025.

Reports11NOAA county-coded rows
Population contextNot calculatedno matched 2024 ACS county denominator
Injuries0direct + indirect fields
Fatalities0direct + indirect fields
Not a probability

11 reports in ten years does not mean a 1.1-event annual forecast. Reporting units, event segmentation, coverage, and local exposure all affect the count.

01 / YEAR-BY-YEAR

How the record changed

20164
20172
20191
20201
20221
20252
03 / RECORDED CONSEQUENCES

Impact fields on these rows

Damage estimates are nominal values as filed by the reporting source and retained by NOAA.

Property damage$68Knot inflation-adjusted
Crop damage$0not inflation-adjusted
First report year2,016within selected window
Latest report year2,025within selected window
04 / RECENT ROW SAMPLE

Latest records in this slice

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DateEvent IDSourceMagnitude / scaleFiled damage
2025-08-13NOAA 1,274,060Trained Spotter$5K
2025-07-20NOAA 1,265,775Fire Department/Rescue$10K
2022-07-12NOAA 1,034,656Fire Department/Rescue$7K
2020-07-23NOAA 909,856Amateur Radio$1K
2019-08-07NOAA 850,531Amateur Radio$1K
2017-07-13NOAA 712,166Amateur Radio$1K
2017-04-06NOAA 693,577Amateur Radio$2K
2016-08-11NOAA 656,258Amateur Radio$15K
READING THE RECORD

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