Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bridgeton, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Seabrook Farms, NJ, 3 miles north of Bridgeton at 104 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 67°F; January is the coolest, at 41°F and 25°F. August is the wettest at 4.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.7 inches; the year adds up to 47.8 inches over 78 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (25.4 of 47.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 45 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (17); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 25 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 87 nights a year. Snowfall averages 11.8 inches a year, most of it in January. That 47.8 inches is more than at 23 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (45%). Pittsgrove, 8 miles northeast, has its own station (Woodstown Pittsgrov 4E, NJ): 46.7 inches a year, 1.1 less than here, and a July average high of 89°F against 86°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Reedy Point, DE, 19 miles northwest, averaged 83°F in July and 38°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July to August. Sea level at the Reedy Point tide gauge, 19 miles from Bridgeton, has risen 1.55 ± 0.09 inches per decade from 1956 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 15.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 93 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 159 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bridgeton: 105 thunderstorm wind reports, 27 floods, 14 heavy rain events and 13 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $26.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 89 mph, on August 7, 2020. July has had the most flash floods, 6 of 13. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 30 have had fewer than Bridgeton.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bridgeton's ZIP code 08302 have filed 54 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $484,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1980: 15 claims (28% of all) and $152,000. 65% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 395 New Jersey cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 155 have fewer than Bridgeton.