Rome

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond this area.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every storm within 100 miles

1. Tropical storms and hurricanes (34 kt or more, still tropical) at closest approach. Post-tropical remnants with gale-force winds are listed but not counted. Direct: track within 50 miles; near: within 100 miles. Distance is measured to the county boundary for counties and to the city centre for cities, using positions interpolated hourly between HURDAT2 fixes.

National Hurricane Center HURDAT2, 1851 to 2025.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Flood insurance figures are for Oneida County, the county that contains Rome.

Claims by ZIP code

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

River crests

River gauges in Oneida County, the county that contains Rome.

River gauges

1. Crests are the highest and the recent crests the National Weather Service lists for each river gauge in the county that has a flood stage, not every flood. Flood categories use each gauge's current flood stages; crests from before levees, dams or channel changes may not be comparable. Crests measured on an old datum are left out of the rankings.

NOAA National Water Prediction Service gauge records, retrieved October 30, 2026.

The drought index is for Oneida County, the county that contains Rome.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the city centre.
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Mapped landslides

Landslides mapped in Oneida County.

Mapped by NASA (1).

1. Landslides mapped in the USGS compilation of landslide inventories across the United States (version 3.0, 2025), rated probable or better. The compilation joins inventories made by federal and state agencies for different purposes and areas, so the number mapped in a county reflects how closely it has been surveyed as much as how often its slopes fail. An area with few records may simply not have been mapped. Deaths are as recorded in the inventories; a slide listed in two inventories is counted once.

USGS Landslide Inventories across the United States, version 3.0, retrieved October 27, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Jun 27, 2006Flash Flood$50.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Tropical moisture streamed northward into upstate New York ahead of a frontal system which slowly moved westward into the eastern Great Lakes by Tuesday morning the 27th. This brought an initial round of heavy rain to Oneida County by Tuesday morning. From 2 to 4 inches of rain fell by Tuesday morning. The rain abated for a short time during the day Tuesday before another batch of heavy rain fell Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday morning as the front moved back east and combined with a low pressure system moving up the eastern seaboard. Total rainfall for the three day period ending Wednesday was between 4 and 8 inches. This scenario caused the worst flash flooding in Oneida County…

2. Sep 7, 1998Thunderstorm Wind$10.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The derecho continued to progress quickly towards the east-southeast. It inflicted more widespread wind damage down the western Mohawk Valley. Tree and structural damage was quite common over central and southern sections of the county. Additional reports of large hail were also noted. Severe storms initially entered the county in Verona just before 200 am EDT. A large swath of trees was toppled or damaged just north of the Thruway and along route 31 near Verona Station and Dams Corners. Portions of route 31 became impassable as large tree limbs and power lines blocked the roadway. Further downstream from Westmoreland southward to the Waterville area, more extensive tree damage…

3. Apr 4, 2003Ice Storm, Northern Oneida$4.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   A stationary front was west to east across Pennsylvania during the 3rd and 4th of April. Areas of low pressure moved along the front bringing precipitation to upstate New York. A large area of high pressure, centered over Hudson Bay Canada helped to keep cold air at the surface. The morning of the 5th low pressure moved northeast to Erie, Pennsylvania then to northeast New York that evening. A trailing cold front brought with it an end to the precipitation from west to east. Patchy freezing rain was across these counties first the night of the 3rd into the 4th. At this time the freezing rain was most widespread in Northern Oneida County. Steady widespread freezing rain started…

4. Jul 16, 2024Tornado$3.5 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Severe thunderstorms carried through the area with scattered damage during mid afternoon of July 16 2024. Strong rotation in one of the storms caused a high-end EF2 tornado to touch down between the Erie Canal and Muck Road in Oneida County New York. The tornado passed directly through Rome with heavy damage and estimated maximum wind speeds to 135 mph, before lifting just past Griffiss International Airport. Two churches sustained significant damage to their roofs and steeples. Two|large brick buildings sustained major damage or removal of roofs, with complete collapses of some walls. Cascading bricks next to these buildings crushed multiple vehicles. A vehicle was also flipped…

5. Jun 28, 2013Flood$3.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Record flooding occurred on the Oneida Creek with significant damages to the City of Oneida and surrounding areas. A makeshift levee was overtopped and breached by flood waters. The crest on the river gauge was 17.23 feet which occurred at 10:45 AM.

6. Sep 7, 2011Flash Flood$3.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Saquoit creek at the intersection of Sunnyside and Brookline drives exceeded its banks and caused flooding along Brookline drive and across the Bridge on Genesee street on the Utica-New Hartford line.

7. Apr 4, 2003Ice Storm, Southern Oneida$3.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   A stationary front was west to east across Pennsylvania during the 3rd and 4th of April. Areas of low pressure moved along the front bringing precipitation to upstate New York. A large area of high pressure, centered over Hudson Bay Canada helped to keep cold air at the surface. The morning of the 5th low pressure moved northeast to Erie, Pennsylvania then to northeast New York that evening. A trailing cold front brought with it an end to the precipitation from west to east. Patchy freezing rain was across these counties first the night of the 3rd into the 4th. At this time the freezing rain was most widespread in Northern Oneida County. Steady widespread freezing rain started…

8. Jul 1, 2017Flash Flood$2.6 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Widespread flash flooding of small streams and urbanized areas continued, and became more severe, throughout the town of Kirkland. Culverts and roads were washed out in several locations. Several residences and businesses experienced significant flooding.

9. Jul 4, 1999Flash Flood$2.5 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   An organized area of thunderstorms developed over the northern Great Lakes in association with an upper level disturbance and warm front. The thunderstorms moved southeast into a warm, humid and unstable airmass, entering the southern Tug Hill Plateau and western Mohawk Valley after midnight. The thunderstorms produced strong winds and heavy rain. Across Oneida, eastern Otsego and eastern Delaware counties numerous roads were washed out. Many streams and creeks rose out of their banks flooding countless basements across these counties. There was also extensive structural damage to bridges and buildings. A state of emergency was declared for Oneida county and the towns of Roxbury…

10. Feb 17, 2003Heavy Snow, Southern Oneida$2.1 million
    National Weather Service narrative

    A coastal storm moved slowly up the east coast on the 16th and early on the 17th. Late on the 17th the storm picked up speed to be well off the northeast coast. Snow spread into the southern Catskills of New York during the evening of the 16th. The snow moved into the southern tier by 3 AM then to the New York Thruway in Syracuse and Utica around 7 AM. The snow was heavy at times on the 17th. The snow ended around midnight of the 17th. Snowfall rates were several inches an hour. Snowfall amounts were a widespread 10 to 20 inches from the Elmira Corning area east into the western Catskills. Further north snow amounts were mostly 6 to 12 inches. Northern Oneida County had only 3 to…

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

101°F3 times, most recently Jul 17, 2012

All-time low

−26°F3 times, most recently Feb 18, 1979

Warmest night

80°FJul 5, 1999

Coldest day

−4°FJan 17, 1982

Wettest day

4.29 inJul 12, 2006

Snowiest day

24.2 inDec 30, 2025

Hottest year

2024mean 53.3°F

Coldest year

1940mean 45.1°F

Wettest year

197658.17 in

Driest year

196427.10 in

Snowiest season

192.1 in1992-93

Station Syracuse Hancock International Airport (USW00014771), 410 ft elevation, 32.0 miles from the city centre. Daily records from 1938 to October 27, 2026; 99.9% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

Declarations for Oneida County.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USW00014771.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Landslides USGS Landslide Inventories across the United States, version 3.0 (2025).
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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