Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Breezy Point, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Ny Ave V Brooklyn, NY, 4 miles northwest of Breezy Point at 20 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 70°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 28°F. July is the wettest at 4.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 47.1 inches over 75 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (24.3 of 47.1 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 51 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 77°F and 3.9 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 14 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 66 nights a year. Snowfall averages 24.5 inches a year, most of it in February. That 47.1 inches is more than at 99 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (72%). Rockaway Park, 3 miles east, has its own station (New York Jfk International Airport, NY): 43.5 inches a year, 3.6 less than here, and a July average high of 84°F against 85°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Sandy Hook, NJ, 8 miles southwest, averaged 77°F in July and 38°F in January over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Sandy Hook tide gauge, 8 miles from Breezy Point, has risen 1.68 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1932 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 16.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 105 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 201 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Breezy Point: 99 thunderstorm wind reports, 59 flash floods, 24 floods, 17 lightning strikes and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 7 people and injured 22, and the NWS estimated $536,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 72 mph, on March 16, 2026. September has had the most flash floods, 17 of 59. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 568 have had fewer than Breezy Point.

Flood insurance policyholders in Breezy Point's ZIP code 11697 have filed 2,375 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $155.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 1,467 claims (62% of all) and $149.8 million, then Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 303 and December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992 with 273. 96% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 549 New York cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 539 have fewer than Breezy Point.