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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Acampo, CA

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Acampo, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 22 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
22

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
0

no recorded deaths

What the records show for Acampo

The highest rating among the 22 tornadoes within 25 miles is F1 or EF1, reached 3 times; the most recent, on October 22, 2012, came within 14 miles. Of the 22, one had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 8 have come since 2000. April has had the most tornadoes, 10. The most recent tornado was on January 14, 2023. Acampo has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 70% of the 705 California cities on this site.

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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Acampo

By decade

  • 2020s4
  • 2010s2
  • 2000s2
  • 1990s6
  • 1980s5
  • 1970s2
  • 1960s1
Strongest tornadoes near Acampo, California
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Oct 22, 2012EF114 mi1.02 mi0 / 0
Apr 19, 1988F15 mi0.2 mi0 / 0
May 31, 1967F116 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Jan 14, 2023EF010 mi0.3 mi0 / 0
Nov 8, 2022EF010 mi0.8 mi0 / 0
May 18, 2020EF017 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Apr 11, 2012EF023 mi0.25 mi0 / 0
Feb 25, 2007EF015 mi1 mi0 / 0
Apr 8, 2005F021 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Apr 1, 1996F05 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Apr 1, 1996F05 mi0.1 mi0 / 0
Apr 1, 1996F09 mi0.3 mi0 / 0

The strongest 12 of 22, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

Hail in Acampo

The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Acampo since 1955.

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.

Weather by month in Acampo

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Lodi, CA, 7 miles southwest of Acampo at 40 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 59°F; December is the coolest, at 57°F and 39°F. December is the wettest at 3.6 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 18.2 inches over 41 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 78 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 20 nights a year. That 18.2 inches is more than at 131 of the 226 California stations used on this site (58%). Wilton, 13 miles north, has its own station (Sacramento 5 ESE, CA): 19.2 inches a year, 1.0 more than here, and a July average high of 94°F against 92°F.

Monthly climate normals 1991–2020 at Lodi, CA
MonthHigh °FLow °FPrecip. inDays ≥ 0.1"
Jan57403.58
Feb63423.48
Mar69452.55
Apr74471.54
May81520.72
Jun88570.21
Jul92590.00
Aug92580.00
Sep89560.10
Oct79500.92
Nov65431.84
Dec57393.67
Year754918.241

Averages for 1991–2020 at Lodi, CA (40 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.

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Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Acampo

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 18 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Acampo: 14 floods, 2 heavy rain events, 1 flash flood and 1 thunderstorm wind report. They killed 1 person and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $210,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 70 mph, on January 10, 2023.

  • January 1, 2023: flash flood 8 miles from the centre of Acampo — 1 killed.

  • October 30, 2008: heavy rain event 5 miles from the centre of Acampo — $100,000 damage.

  • February 9, 2017: flood 4 miles from the centre of Acampo — $100,000 damage.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.

Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings

Flood insurance policyholders in Acampo's ZIP code 95220 have filed 18 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1998, and were paid $543,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 67% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 76 have fewer than Acampo.

San Joaquin County, which includes Acampo, has been named in 25 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1964, 19 of them major disasters (by incident: 10 floods, 6 severe storms, 2 biological emergencies, 2 coastal storms). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on April 3, 2023. FEMA's National Risk Index gives San Joaquin County a Relatively High rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively High for inland flooding, lightning and heat waves; Relatively Low for tornadoes, hail and strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $421.9 million a year, the 15th highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $137.8 million (33%), is from inland flooding.

Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).

Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).

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