Oswego County, NY Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
Oswego County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1960, NOAA has logged 14 tornado tracks crossing Oswego County - one about every 5.4 years, which lands it in our Low band. Nationally, Oswego County ranks at the 39th percentile for tornado frequency. New York has 62 counties in this dataset; Oswego County ranks 10 of them by frequency.
Oswego County's EF4-5 history
Oswego County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 14 tracks split 13 weak and 1 significant. That does not rule one out in the future, only that none has been recorded since 1950.
What a storm shelter costs near Oswego County
For a Oswego County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no New York-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
Power loss after a tornado outbreak in New York often reaches homes the storm itself never touched. A battery-backup unit covers the outage without the fuel and venting a generator needs.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. Oswego County covers about 952 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. Oswego County has about 118,305 residents.