Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bronx, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bronx, NY, 2 miles southeast of Bronx at 39 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 71°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 27°F. August is the wettest at 4.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.2 inches; the year adds up to 50.1 inches over 81 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (26.0 of 50.1 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 46 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 77°F and 4.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 23 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 67 nights a year. That 50.1 inches is more than at 123 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (90%). Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 4 miles northwest, has its own station (Teterboro Airport, NJ): 46.4 inches a year, 3.7 less than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 86°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 7 miles southeast, averaged 74°F in August and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Kings Point tide gauge, 7 miles from Bronx, has risen 1.08 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 62 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 642 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bronx: 295 flash floods, 280 thunderstorm wind reports, 44 floods, 19 lightning strikes and 4 heavy rain events. They killed 17 people and injured 28, and the NWS estimated $305.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 125 mph, on September 16, 2010. September has had the most flash floods, 80 of 295. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 795 have had fewer than Bronx.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bronx's 24 ZIP codes have filed 1,932 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $27.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 535 claims (28% of all) and $12.9 million, then December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992 with 243 and Flooding in 1996 with 214. 81% 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, 526 have fewer than Bronx.