NOAA STORM EVENTS · COMPLETE YEARS 2016–2025HISTORICAL REPORTS, NOT A FORECAST OR RISK SCORE
STORM EVENTLEDGERCOUNTY REPORTS · SEASONALITY · IMPACT
EVENT FILE / 25009MINIMUM 5 REPORTS

ESSEX · MA

Lightning history

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

Reports10NOAA county-coded rows
Population context1.2per 100,000 residents · 2024 ACS denominator 813,054
Injuries0direct + 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

20171
20182
20191
20202
20211
20222
20231
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$79Knot inflation-adjusted
Crop damage$0not inflation-adjusted
First report year2,017within selected window
Latest report year2,023within selected window
04 / RECENT ROW SAMPLE

Latest records in this slice

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DateEvent IDSourceMagnitude / scaleFiled damage
2023-06-09NOAA 1,097,886Amateur Radio$5K
2022-08-07NOAA 1,046,572Amateur Radio$10K
2022-06-29NOAA 1,026,696Amateur Radio$5K
2021-06-08NOAA 955,430Amateur Radio$10K
2020-07-23NOAA 908,369Amateur Radio$3K
2020-03-29NOAA 874,059Newspaper$1K
2019-06-30NOAA 825,548Amateur Radio$15K
2018-06-18NOAA 751,787Amateur Radio$5K
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