Marion County Wind, Tornado & Tropical Storm Tree History (2010–2025 NOAA Data)

16-year Marion County severe weather summary (2010–2025)

Across the 16-year period from January 2010 through December 2025, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Storm Events Database recorded 311 severe wind, hail, tornado, and tropical-system reports across Marion County and its NWS forecast zones — comprising 256 thunderstorm-wind reports on 131 distinct storm days (an average of 16.0 thunderstorm-wind reports per year, with 52 entries recording property damage), 39 hail reports on 26 days, 7 tornado segments on 7 days, and 13 tropical-storm zone entries across 9 distinct days.

{"Severe convective wind is heavily concentrated during Central Florida's late-spring and summer sea-breeze season": "June leads all months with 77 thunderstorm-wind reports, followed by July (45), April (35), August (34), and May (21) — meaning 82.8% of Marion County's thunderstorm-wind events strike between April and August, with the afternoon window between 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM local time accounting for more than two-thirds of all reports."}

Notable Ocala and Marion County wind, tornado, and tropical events

Several high-end wind and tornado events in the NCEI record illustrate how quickly straight-line microbursts, squall-line tornadoes, and inland hurricanes bring down Marion County oaks and pines: on December 14, 2013, an 87-knot (100 mph) downburst struck Anthony north of Ocala, heavily damaging a wooden barn and snapping mature trees; on March 12, 2022, a pre-frontal squall line produced a 26.65-mile EF1 tornado tracking from Dunnellon across Marion County while Ocala mesonet station AV369 measured a 73 mph (63-knot) thunderstorm wind gust; on April 26, 2023, supercells dropped hail up to 3.00 inches in Anthony and 1.75-inch golf-ball hail at the Marion County Emergency Operations Center in West End; and on April 3, 2024, an estimated 65-knot (75 mph) downburst near Martin along NW 80th Ave and Highway 225A snapped water oaks and damaged outbuildings.

Inland tropical cyclones have repeatedly tested Ocala's canopy even though Marion County lies 35 miles inland from both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean: NCEI logs tropical-storm impacts across Marion County during Tropical Storm Colin, Hurricane Hermine, and Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Hurricane Irma in September 2017, Tropical Storm Eta in November 2020, Hurricane Idalia in August 2023, and the back-to-back 2024 trio of Hurricane Debby (August 4–5, 2024, with 9.37 inches of rain and 41 mph gusts at Ocala International Airport KOCF), Hurricane Helene (September 26, 2024, when a tree fell onto an Ocala home causing roof damage and over 45,000 customers lost power), and Hurricane Milton (October 9, 2024, dropping 3 to 9 inches of rain and toppling trees and power lines countywide).

The data: Annual NOAA thunderstorm-wind reports in Marion County, FL (2010–2025)

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year	thunderstorm wind reports	hail reports	tornado segments	tropical system days	total severe reports
2010	13	4	0	0	17
2011	33	7	0	0	40
2012	12	4	0	0	16
2013	15	5	0	0	20
2014	16	1	0	0	17
2015	23	2	1	0	26
2016	10	0	1	3	14
2017	34	1	0	1	36
2018	13	2	0	0	15
2019	17	3	1	0	21
2020	13	2	1	1	17
2021	4	0	1	0	5
2022	17	0	2	0	19
2023	14	5	0	1	20
2024	11	2	0	3	16
2025	11	1	0	0	12

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Cite this data

Ocala Tree Guide. "Marion County, FL Severe Weather Reports by Year (2010–2025)." Compiled 2026-10-23 from NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database. https://ocalatreeguide.com/guides/marion-county-wind-storm-tree-damage-data/. NOAA data are in the public domain; please credit "Data: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database."

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Sources: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (Marion County, FL, 2010–2025) · checked 2026-10-23