York County, ME Tornado Risk & Storm Shelter Cost
York County's tornado history, by the numbers
Since 1956, NOAA has logged 12 tornado tracks crossing York County - one about every 6.3 years, which lands it in our Low band. Nationally, York County ranks at the 35th percentile for tornado frequency. Among 16 Maine counties in this dataset, York County ranks 6 for how often a tornado touches down.
York County's EF4-5 history
York County's record has no EF4-5 tornado - its 12 tracks split 11 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 York County
For a York County homeowner, budget $2,890-$13,280 for a shelter or safe room ($7,645 typical) - this pass found no Maine-specific rebate on top of FEMA's underlying 75% national cost-share program.
The outage nobody plans for
The storm that misses York County outright can still take its power out - outbreak-scale outages across Maine are common well beyond the tracked path. A battery-backup unit handles that without a generator's setup or fuel.
Read this before you rely on it
This is a county-level figure, not a per-address probability. York County covers about 991 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. York County has about 220,143 residents.