Tornado History Map

Massachusetts tornado history

201 tornadoes recorded in Massachusetts from 1951 to 2025, drawn on the map and coloured by rating.

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Years1950 to 2025
Rating (F or EF scale)

Shows tornadoes that started in, or crossed, the chosen state. To see how many have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • F0 / EF0 Light damage
  • F1 / EF1 Moderate damage
  • F2 / EF2 Considerable damage
  • F3 / EF3 Severe damage
  • F4 / EF4 Devastating damage
  • F5 / EF5 Incredible damage
  • Unknown Not rated (2007 onwards)

How to read the lines. Each line is one tornado, drawn from where it started to where it ended, coloured and sized by its rating. A dot means the record has no end point. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see how many tornadoes have passed nearby. Weaker tornadoes appear as you zoom in. Ratings use the Fujita (F) scale before 1 February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale from then on.

Tornadoes in Massachusetts

The Storm Prediction Center records 201 tornadoes that touched Massachusetts between 1951 and 2025, and 192 of them began there. A tornado that crossed a state line counts in every state it touched. They killed 112 people and injured 2,063. The busiest month is July, with 66 tornadoes.

  • 201tornadoes
  • 112deaths
  • 2,063injuries
  • 258per 10,000 sq mi of land
  • 13counties touched

Tornadoes per 10,000 square miles lets you compare states of different sizes. It counts every tornado that touched the state.

How strong were Massachusetts's tornadoes?

RatingTornadoesShare
F0 / EF05527%
F1 / EF110150%
F2 / EF23517%
F3 / EF363%
F4 / EF442%
F5 / EF500%
Unknown rating00%

Massachusetts tornadoes over time

Tornadoes by decade
Bar chart of tornadoes by period. The most is 39 in 1950s.1950s391960s361970s361980s171990s152000s102010s252020s23

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. The record starts in 1951.

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PeriodCount
1950s39
1960s36
1970s36
1980s17
1990s15
2000s10
2010s25
2020s23

The record has changed over the decades as detection and reporting improved, so more weak tornadoes show up in recent years than in the 1950s. The year with the most in Massachusetts was 1958, with 12.

Tornadoes by month
Bar chart of tornadoes by period. The most is 66 in Jul.Jan0Feb2Mar1Apr0May15Jun29Jul66Aug49Sep19Oct12Nov6Dec2
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb2
Mar1
Apr0
May15
Jun29
Jul66
Aug49
Sep19
Oct12
Nov6
Dec2

Deadliest tornadoes that touched Massachusetts

Strongest tornadoes that touched Massachusetts

Most recent tornadoes in Massachusetts

  • Massachusetts tornado6 September 2025, EF0, 2.4 miles long
  • Massachusetts tornado6 September 2025, EF0, 0.6 miles long
  • Massachusetts tornado6 September 2025, EF0, 0.2 miles long
  • Massachusetts tornado6 September 2025, EF0, 0.1 miles long
  • Massachusetts tornado6 September 2025, EF0, 0.2 miles long

Notable Massachusetts tornadoes with their own pages

Many of these tornadoes killed or injured people. The numbers are the official record's, and they may be revised.

Massachusetts counties

Every county that a tornado has touched is listed, most tornadoes first. 11 of them have at least 3 tornadoes and their own page.

CountyTornadoesStrongest
Worcester County55F/EF4
Middlesex County27F/EF4
Franklin County26F/EF2
Hampden County21F/EF4
Berkshire County19F/EF4
Norfolk County16F/EF3
Essex County15F/EF3
Bristol County14F/EF3
Hampshire County13F/EF3
Plymouth County11F/EF2
Barnstable County8F/EF1
Dukes County2F/EF2
Suffolk County2F/EF2

Other states

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