Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Banks, OR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Forest Grove, OR, 8 miles south of Banks at 180 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 54°F; December is the coolest, at 44°F and 33°F. December is the wettest at 8.7 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.3 inches; the year adds up to 46.6 inches over 93 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 23 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 61 nights a year. Snowfall averages 2.7 inches a year, most of it in December. That 46.6 inches is more than at 47 of the 77 Oregon stations used on this site (61%). North Plains, 5 miles east, has its own station (Portland-Hillsboro Airport, OR): 36.1 inches a year, 10.5 less than here, and the same August average high, 82°F.

Sea level at the Garibaldi tide gauge, 39 miles from Banks, has risen 0.96 ± 0.12 inches per decade from 1970 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 9.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 56 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Banks's ZIP code 97106 have filed 10 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1996, and were paid $35,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 90% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 77 Oregon cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 0 have fewer than Banks.