thumb|The [[Enderlin tornado|Enderlin, North Dakota tornado of June 20, 2025, the most recent tornado to receive an EF5 rating.]]
thumb|upright=1.15|right|The [[Xenia, Ohio, F5 tornado of April 3, 1974. Ted Fujita assigned this tornado a preliminary rating of F6. The Fujita scale has been superseded by the Enhanced Fujita scale in the U.S. since February 1, 2007; Canada used the old scale until April 1, 2013; nations elsewhere, like the United Kingdom, apply other classifications such as the TORRO scale.
The most recent EF5 tornado was the 2025 Enderlin tornado, ending the record 12-year EF5 drought that began after the 2013 Moore tornado.
Background
Each year, more than 2,000 tornadoes are recorded worldwide, with the vast majority occurring in the central United States, Europe and South America. In order to assess the intensity of these events, meteorologist Ted Fujita devised a method to estimate maximum wind speeds within tornadic storms based on the damage caused; this became known as the Fujita scale. The scale ranks tornadoes from F0 to F5, with F0 being the least intense and F5 being the most intense. F5 tornadoes were estimated to have had maximum winds between and .