Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Brookings, OR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Brookings, OR, 4 miles south of Brookings at 82 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 66°F and low of 54°F; December is the coolest, at 53°F and 43°F. December is the wettest at 14.1 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.4 inches; the year adds up to 77.8 inches. Highs reach 90°F on about 1 days a year. Lows fall below freezing on about 5 nights a year. That 77.8 inches is more than at 67 of the 77 Oregon stations used on this site (87%). Smith River, CA, 12 miles southeast, has its own station (Brookings 2 SE, OR): 78.2 inches a year, 0.4 more than here, and an August average high of 67°F against 66°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Crescent City, CA, 25 miles south, averaged 60°F in August and 51°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Crescent City tide gauge, 25 miles from Brookings, has fallen 0.30 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1933 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 3.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 12 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 6 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Brookings: 3 floods and 3 thunderstorm wind reports. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on March 13, 2011.

Flood insurance policyholders in Brookings's ZIP code 97415 have filed 31 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1983, and were paid $233,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2012, with 15. 26% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 77 Oregon cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 38 have fewer than Brookings.