NOAA STORM EVENTS · COMPLETE YEARS 2016–2025HISTORICAL REPORTS, NOT A FORECAST OR RISK SCORE
STORM EVENTLEDGERCOUNTY REPORTS · SEASONALITY · IMPACT
EVENT FILE / 12099MINIMUM 5 REPORTS

PALM BEACH · FL

Lightning history

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

Reports10NOAA county-coded rows
Population context0.7per 100,000 residents · 2024 ACS denominator 1,533,806
Injuries12direct + indirect fields
Fatalities3direct + indirect fields
Not a probability

10 reports in ten years does not mean a 1.0-event annual forecast. Reporting units, event segmentation, coverage, and local exposure all affect the count.

01 / YEAR-BY-YEAR

How the record changed

20165
20171
20181
20192
20201
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$107Knot inflation-adjusted
Crop damage$0not inflation-adjusted
First report year2,016within selected window
Latest report year2,020within selected window
04 / RECENT ROW SAMPLE

Latest records in this slice

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DateEvent IDSourceMagnitude / scaleFiled damage
2020-10-16NOAA 919,867Broadcast Media$2K
2019-08-17NOAA 850,408Broadcast Media$0
2019-07-30NOAA 846,233Broadcast Media$0
2018-07-10NOAA 774,393Broadcast Media$0
2017-07-17NOAA 716,073Broadcast Media$0
2016-09-29NOAA 655,839Newspaper$0
2016-07-13NOAA 642,077Broadcast Media$100K
2016-04-15NOAA 626,374Newspaper$0
READING THE RECORD

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