Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Buckley, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Buckley 1 NE, WA, 3 miles east of Buckley at 685 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 77°F and low of 52°F; December is the coolest, at 46°F and 33°F. November is the wettest at 6.8 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 1.1 inches; the year adds up to 48.2 inches over 116 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 4 days a year, almost all from July. Lows fall below freezing on about 50 nights a year. Snowfall averages 4.3 inches a year, most of it in November. That 48.2 inches is more than at 58 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (67%). Bonney Lake, 5 miles west, has its own station (Mcmillin Rsvr, WA): 45.2 inches a year, 3.0 less than here, and the same August average high, 77°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Tacoma, WA, 19 miles northwest, averaged 56°F in September and 48°F in March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Seattle tide gauge, 34 miles from Buckley, has risen 0.82 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1899 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 42 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Buckley's ZIP code 98321 have filed 13 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $218,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 46% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 128 Washington cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 10 have fewer than Buckley.