NOAA STORM EVENTS · COMPLETE YEARS 2016–2025HISTORICAL REPORTS, NOT A FORECAST OR RISK SCORE
STORM EVENTLEDGERCOUNTY REPORTS · SEASONALITY · IMPACT
EVENT FILE / 12105MINIMUM 5 REPORTS

POLK · FL

Tornado history

NOAA records coded as Tornado in Polk during the ten complete years from 2016 through 2025.

Reports10NOAA county-coded rows
Population context1.3per 100,000 residents · 2024 ACS denominator 790,694
Injuries1direct + indirect fields
Fatalities0direct + 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

20161
20171
20182
20191
20201
20211
20243
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$10.3Mnot inflation-adjusted
Crop damage$2Knot inflation-adjusted
First report year2,016within selected window
Latest report year2,024within selected window
04 / RECENT ROW SAMPLE

Latest records in this slice

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DateEvent IDSourceMagnitude / scaleFiled damage
2024-08-04NOAA 1,225,281PublicEF0$0
2024-08-04NOAA 1,224,073PublicEF0$0
2024-07-23NOAA 1,204,294Broadcast MediaEF0$5K
2021-04-11NOAA 943,561NWS Storm SurveyEF0$17K
2020-12-16NOAA 995,032NWS Storm SurveyEF1$250K
2019-10-18NOAA 853,690NWS Storm SurveyEF2$10.0M
2018-12-20NOAA 790,674Law EnforcementEF0$5K
2018-12-20NOAA 790,673NWS Storm SurveyEF0$45K
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