Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Belfair, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bremerton, WA, 13 miles northeast of Belfair at 110 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 77°F and low of 55°F; December is the coolest, at 46°F and 35°F. December is the wettest at 9.9 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.8 inches; the year adds up to 56.9 inches over 102 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 4 days a year, almost all from July to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 42 nights a year. Snowfall averages 3.0 inches a year, most of it in December. That 56.9 inches is more than at 66 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (77%). Allyn, 5 miles southeast, has its own station (Tacoma Narrows Airport, WA): 42.1 inches a year, 14.8 less than here, and an August average high of 76°F against 77°F.

Sea level at the Seattle tide gauge, 28 miles from Belfair, has risen 0.82 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1899 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 42 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Belfair's ZIP code 98528 have filed 44 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1987, and were paid $1.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Winter storm in 2007: 14 claims (32% of all) and $251,000. 32% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 128 Washington cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 55 have fewer than Belfair.