Oneida County, ID Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Oneida County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1986, NOAA has logged 3 tornado tracks crossing Oneida County - one about every 25.6 years, which lands it in our Minimal band. Nationally, Oneida County ranks at the 10th percentile for tornado frequency. Idaho has 44 counties in this dataset; Oneida County ranks 30 of them by frequency.
Oneida County's EF4-5 history
Oneida County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 3 tracks split 3 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 Oneida County
For a Oneida 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
Tornado outbreaks routinely knock out power across Idaho for days, separately from any single house getting hit. A portable battery bank keeps a fridge, phone chargers and a radio running through that gap - cheaper and faster to set up than a generator.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Oneida County covers about 1,199 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. Oneida County has about 4,976 residents.