Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bloomsburg, PA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bear Gap, PA, 14 miles south of Bloomsburg at 1,015 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 35°F and 19°F. September is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 48.2 inches over 89 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (26.3 of 48.2 inches); the other six months are drier. August has brought the most of the 18 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (8); a normal August there has highs of 80°F and 4.1 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 127 nights a year. Snowfall averages 33.5 inches a year, most of it in January. That 48.2 inches is more than at 112 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (76%). Orangeville, 7 miles north, has its own station (Benton 3 NE, PA): 48.6 inches a year, 0.4 more than here, and a July average high of 80°F against 84°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 190 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bloomsburg: 173 thunderstorm wind reports, 12 flash floods and 5 floods. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $16.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 100 mph, on June 26, 2024. July has had the most flash floods, 5 of 12. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 211 have had fewer than Bloomsburg.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bloomsburg's ZIP code 17815 have filed 1,423 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $45.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Lee in 2011: 517 claims (36% of all) and $30.0 million, then Flooding in 1996 with 181 and Tropical Storm Ivan in 2004 with 116. 58% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 553 Pennsylvania cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 549 have fewer than Bloomsburg.