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title: Tornado — U.S. toll in 2025 (NOAA)
peril: Tornado
year: 2025
source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database
sourceId: src:noaa:ncei:storm-events-database
---

# Tornado — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **64 direct deaths**, **248 injuries**, and **$1,906,326,500 property damage** (+ $3,373,000 crop) from Tornado, across **39 states** (1,296 events). That is 10.2% of all recorded 2025 hazard deaths.

**How to read this:** one **volatile year** (a major event in another year changes it sharply) — NOT "the deadliest hazard in history." Deaths are NOAA **"direct" deaths only**; indirect deaths are excluded. Damage is NOAA's reported estimate, not insured loss. This is the recorded past toll, **not a forecast of your risk** — for that, see the per-state/county risk profiles and the National Weather Service.

## Where tornado took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| KENTUCKY | 19 | $18,050,000 |
| MISSOURI | 16 | $1,687,517,500 |
| MISSISSIPPI | 9 | $30,106,000 |
| TENNESSEE | 9 | $26,515,000 |
| ALABAMA | 3 | $8,993,000 |
| NORTH DAKOTA | 3 | $5,905,000 |
| NEW YORK | 3 | $639,000 |
| INDIANA | 1 | $18,886,000 |
| OKLAHOMA | 1 | $17,201,000 |
| ILLINOIS | 0 | $30,218,000 |

RECORDED NOAA Storm Events figures. Not history, not your risk, not a forecast. Your exposure: `/property/states/<state>` and `/property/counties/<fips>`. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/

Structured data: `/property/hazards/tornado.jsonld`