Clearwater County, ID Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
How likely is a tornado in Clearwater County, ID?
Since 2007, NOAA has logged 1 tornado track crossing Clearwater County - one about every 76.9 years, which lands it in our Minimal band. Nationally, Clearwater County ranks at the 5th percentile for tornado frequency. Within Idaho alone, Clearwater County ranks 39 of 44 counties for tornado frequency.
Clearwater County's EF4-5 history
Clearwater County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 1 track split 1 weak and 0 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Clearwater County
For a Clearwater County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Idaho-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
9,151 people live in Clearwater County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of Idaho than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Clearwater County covers about 2,457 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. Pre-radar-era records (before the 1990s) are also documented by NOAA as undercounting weaker tornadoes in sparsely-instrumented areas. Clearwater County has about 9,151 residents.