Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Belhaven, NC

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Belhaven 3 NE, NC, 2 miles northeast of Belhaven. July is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 71°F; January is the coolest, at 54°F and 33°F. August is the wettest at 6.4 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 52.4 inches over 74 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 59% of the year's precipitation (30.9 of 52.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 118 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (43); a normal September there has highs of 83°F and 5.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 35 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 48 nights a year. Snowfall averages 1.2 inches a year, most of it in January. That 52.4 inches is more than at 91 of the 140 North Carolina stations used on this site (65%). Pinetown, 14 miles west, has its own station (Washington Wwtp 4W, NC): 53.1 inches a year, 0.7 more than here, and the same July average high, 89°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 43 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Belhaven: 39 thunderstorm wind reports, 2 heavy rain events, 1 flash flood and 1 flood. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $4,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 71 mph, on July 10, 2002.

Flood insurance policyholders in Belhaven's ZIP code 27810 have filed 3,731 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $46.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 2011: 667 claims (18% of all) and $14.6 million, then Hurricane Floyd in 1999 with 597 and Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 with 482. The year with the most claims was 1999, with 977. 97% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 263 North Carolina cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 259 have fewer than Belhaven.