Levy County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Levy County: 3.
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.

Every large fire

1. Large fires mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program since 1984: 1,000 acres or more in the West, 500 or more in the East. Prescribed burns are excluded. Acres here are the part of each perimeter inside this place.

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), 1984 to 2026.

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.

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

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.

High tide flooding

1. High tide flooding days are days on which a NOAA tide gauge recorded water at or above NOAA's minor flood threshold, set from the gauge's tide range, counted by meteorological year (May to April). These are the counts in NOAA's annual high tide flooding reports; they are not National Weather Service flood stages. Years with less than 80 percent of data are left out.

NOAA CO-OPS high tide flooding counts, through April 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

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.

Mapped landslides

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. Sep 5, 2004Tropical Storm, Levy$4.8 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Hurricane Frances made landfall just after midnight on September 5th near Vero Beach as a Category 2 storm. The hurricane continued to move slowly west northwestward across central Florida to near Bartow by 2 pm, and just northeast of Tampa by 8 pm, when it was downgraded to a tropical storm. It then emerged back into the Gulf of Mexico near Hudson shortly before midnight. Hurricane Frances took almost 24 hours to move through the Florida peninsula. Frances continued northwestward through the northern gulf of Mexico, making a second landfall on the afternoon of September 6th in the Florida big bend near Tallahassee as a tropical storm. In Lee County the observation at Big Carlos…

2. Apr 18, 2021Thunderstorm Wind$2.5 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Tree down on power lines reported near Court St. in Bronson.

3. Sep 1, 2016Storm Surge/Tide, Coastal Levy$2.1 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   In Levy County, storm surge generally ranged from 6 to 8 feet above normal high tide. At Cedar Key, the peak surge was 7.5 feet late in the evening of the 1st. When added to the normal astronomical tide cycle, the storm tide was 7.64 feet NAVD88. Surge was 5 to 8 feet MSL (4.7 to 7.5 feet NAVD88) from 2000 EST on the 1st through 0430 EST on the 2nd. The storm tide flooded over 40 homes and businesses located in the west end of Yankeetown. Levy County Emergency Management tabulated the damage at $2,105,883, with 51 structures sustaining minor damage, 68 with major damage, and 1 destroyed.

4. Sep 2, 1998Hurricane (Typhoon), Levy$1.1 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Hurricane Earl moved northeast across the Gulf of Mexico and brought low end tropical storm force wind gusts from Cedar Key in Levy county south to Sarasota in Sarasota county. Damage from "Earl" was considered minor. However, cumulative damage estimates, primarily tornadic, from fifteen counties of West Central and Southwest Florida, yielded a value of 1.13 million dollars.Storm total rainfall amounts were generally under one half inch with a few isolated amounts around three inches. Beach erosion was generally minor. However, moderate to severe beach erosion was observed near Venice in Sarasota county. Street flooding one to two feet deep was reported along the immediate coastal…

5. Sep 26, 2004Tropical Storm, Levy$1.1 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Hurricane Jeanne followed the nearly the same path across Florida as Hurricane Frances three weeks earlier and was the unprecedented fourth hurricane to damage Florida during the 2004 hurricane season. The hurricane moved ashore along the east coast of Florida near Stuart late on September 25th with an eye 30 to 40 miles across. Jeanne took a course north of Lake Okeechobee and decreased to a tropical storm in easter Polk County around 9 AM EDT on the 26th. The center of Jeanne curved north of Tampa Bay during the afternoon and traveled north along the coastal counties before exiting north through Levy County around 10 PM. In Hillsborough County the observation from the Vandenburg…

6. Oct 7, 1996Tropical Storm, Levy$910,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Tropical Storm Josephine moved northeast across the Gulf of Mexico and brought low to moderate range tropical storm force winds to mainly coastal areas of West Central and Southwest Florida. Maximum sustained winds of 45 mph with gusts as high as 71 mph were observed at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge at the mouth of Tampa Bay.Tropical Storm Josephine moved onshore in the Big Bend area of Florida and caused storm surges of 8 to 9 feet at Cedar Key in Levy county shortly after midnight on the 8th. Storm surges of 4 to 6 feet were common from Citrus county south to the Tampa Bay metro area. Storm surges of 2 to 4 feet were common from Anna Maria Island in Manatee county south to Ft.…

7. Jul 10, 2005Storm Surge/Tide, Levy$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A bubble of storm surge from Hurricane Dennis moved north along the west Florida Gulf Coast during the day. The surge peaked at Fort Myers around 3:30 AM EDT, in Pinellas County between 8-9 AM EDT, and at Cedar Key just before noon. The surge into Tampa Bay was one to two hours later than the surge along the coast. Southwest Facing beaches along the Gulf of Mexico received average wave heights of 5 to 7 feet with occasional waves of 10 feet. Damage amounts listed occurred in Manatee, Pinellas, and Levy counties only and were a mix of beach erosion, flooded homes, and damage to marinas.Lee County: Fort Myers - Storm Surge 3.08 feet at 3:36 AM EDT, Storm Tide 3.20 feet at 4:54 AM…

8. Oct 15, 2002Tornado$450,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico traveled along a stationary front into Levy county. One of the stronger storms in the vicinity of the stationary front produced a waterspout that moved inland into extreme northwest Citrus County near the Cross Florida Barge Canal. The tornado then proceeded to cross the the northwest corner of Citrus county and moved into the city of Inglis in Levy county. In Citrus county, the damage began near the corner of West Rooster Crow Road and North Nighthawk. Significant tree damage was found near the Withlacoochee river along North Honey Jorden Point with damage width of 500 to 1,500 feet.In Levy county, minor damage occurred to roof tops of…

9. Jun 20, 2003Flash Flood$337,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Numerous roads and homes were damaged in the Inglis and Yankeetown areas due to a flash flood. Rainfall totals for the day were 2.61 inches in Inglis and 2.35 inches in Williston. Further upstream of the Withlachoochee River the rainfall total was 4.65 inches near Dunnellon.

10. Mar 29, 2001Thunderstorm Wind$250,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Levy county emergency management officials reported that thunderstorm winds downed several large trees and branches, caused moderate to major roof damage to 13 mobile homes and minor damage to another 30, in the Hideaway Park mobile home complex along County Road 320 near Manatee Springs.Thunderstorm winds also downed several trees, large branches and a few power lines in Bronson.

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

105°FJun 3, 1989

All-time low

9°FJan 22, 1985

Warmest night

84°FJul 22, 2006

Coldest day

34°FDec 24, 1989

Wettest day

10.45 inSep 11, 1964

Hottest year

2015mean 73.0°F

Coldest year

2010mean 66.5°F

Wettest year

196499.47 in

Driest year

200840.77 in

Station Usher Twr (USC00089120), 33 ft elevation, 9.6 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1956 to October 24, 2026; 96.6% 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.

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

Neighbouring counties

• 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 USC00089120.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Tide gauges NOAA CO-OPS high tide flooding counts, 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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