The following is a list of the <strong>deadliest tornadoes in the Americas</strong> including Canada, Mexico, and the United States as well as the countries and islands of the Caribbean and the countries included in both Central America and South America. While the significant majority of tornadoes on this list occurred in the United States, there are also entries for Argentina, Bermuda, The Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Uruguay.
The deadliest tornado on record was the DaulatpurâÂÂSaturia tornado which occurred in the Dhaka division of Bangladesh on April 26, 1989. With a rating of at least F3 from the World Meteorological Organization and top winds estimated at greater than , the tornado killed an estimated 1,300 people and injured at least 12,000 others. Of all the recorded tornadoes with death tolls of 100 or greater, at least 24 of them occurred in Bangladesh and/or India, and two of them occurred in Europe (in the countries of Italy and Malta).
In the Americas, there are 15 tornadoes on record that caused at least 100 fatalities, the most recent being the Joplin EF5 tornado which killed 161 people in May 2011. There are at least 450 tornadoes on record that caused greater than ten fatalities; the most recent of these was the Somerset-London Kentucky EF4 tornado which killed 19 people in May 2025.