Port Orange, FL Tornado History — 107 Tornadoes Since 1950
How many tornadoes has Port Orange, FL had?
Port Orange has had 107 tornadoes on record within 25 miles since 1950, including 2 violent (EF3+) tornadoes.
When was the most recent tornado near Port Orange?
The most recent tornado within 25 miles of Port Orange was an Unrated on September 18, 2025.
When is tornado season in Port Orange?
August is historically the peak month for tornadoes near Port Orange, with 16 on record. Spring through early summer (April–June) generally sees the highest activity across most of the central and southern United States.
At a Glance
Recent Tornado Activity Near Port Orange
The last 20 years of confirmed tornadoes within 25 miles — 22 total, averaging 1.1 per year over this window.
Tornadoes by Decade
Tornadoes by Enhanced Fujita Rating
F0–F5 ratings (pre-2007) are grouped with their EF equivalents. The Enhanced Fujita scale replaced the original Fujita scale in February 2007.
Tornadoes by Month
Casualties on Record Near Port Orange
14 fatalities have been recorded within 25 miles of Port Orange since 1950, across 2 events. 117 injuries have been reported across all events. 2007 was the deadliest year on record.
The deadliest single event was an EF3 on February 2, 2007, which caused 13 fatalities along a 26.0-mile track.
Notable Tornadoes Near Port Orange
About Tornadoes in Port Orange
This overview was written August 10, 2026. The tornado counts and notable-event figures elsewhere on this page reflect the latest data and may differ from this summary.
Volusia County's stretch of Florida's east coast, where Port Orange lies between the Atlantic surf and the Saint Johns River basin, carries a tornado history that opens with a brief F1 in May 1950. Its defining entries belong to the cool season. An F3 tore through the area on November 2, 1997, injuring 32 people along a three-mile track. On February 23, 1998, an F2 traveled eight miles and killed one person. On Christmas Day of 2006, F2 tornadoes crossed the county in close succession, unroofing homes and injuring residents. Before dawn on February 2, 2007, an EF3 carved a track roughly 26 miles long and 450 yards wide, killing 13 people and injuring 51. An EF2 followed on August 18, 2020, cutting a damage swath 550 yards across and injuring one person.
In summer, sea-breeze fronts pushing inland off the Atlantic collide with air drifting east from the Gulf, and the resulting storms, along with rainbands from passing tropical systems, spin up brief, weak tornadoes over the peninsula. The dangerous cool-season events ride a different engine: during El Niño winters a strengthened subtropical jet stream races across northern Florida, adding the wind shear that can turn nocturnal squall lines into long-track supercells like those of 1998 and 2007. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center maintains the underlying record, and the event list elsewhere on this page draws from it.