Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Beverly, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Beverly Municipal Airport, MA, 3 miles northwest of Beverly at 108 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 62°F; January is the coolest, at 36°F and 20°F. October is the wettest at 4.5 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.9 inches; the year adds up to 44.9 inches over 77 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (22.7 of 44.9 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 47 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 73°F and 3.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 10 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 126 nights a year. That 44.9 inches is more than at 12 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (18%). Wenham, 3 miles north, has its own station (Beverly, MA): 48.0 inches a year, 3.1 more than here, and a July average high of 80°F against 82°F.

Sea level at the Boston tide gauge, 17 miles from Beverly, has risen 1.17 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1921 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 68 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 254 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Beverly: 163 thunderstorm wind reports, 48 floods, 25 flash floods and 18 lightning strikes. They killed 1 person and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $19.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 98 mph, on September 6, 2014. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 223 have had fewer than Beverly.

Flood insurance policyholders in Beverly's ZIP code 01915 have filed 164 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $2.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1996: 33 claims (20% of all) and $113,000, then Not a named storm in 1979 with 17 and The "Halloween" Storm in 1991 with 16. The year with the most claims was 1991, with 18. 51% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 229 Massachusetts cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 186 have fewer than Beverly.