Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Burbank, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Burbank Valley Pump Plt, CA, 1 mile west of Burbank at 655 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 63°F; December is the coolest, at 68°F and 42°F. February is the wettest at 4.5 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 16.6 inches over 24 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 55 days a year, almost all from April to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 1 nights a year. That 16.6 inches is more than at 118 of the 226 California stations used on this site (52%). North Hollywood, 3 miles west, has its own station (Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport, CA): 13.9 inches a year, 2.7 less than here, and an August average high of 89°F against 88°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Santa Monica, CA, 16 miles southwest, averaged 69°F in August and 58°F in January and March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Santa Monica tide gauge, 16 miles from Burbank, has risen 0.60 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1933 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 6.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 28 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 41 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Burbank: 33 flash floods, 7 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 flood. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $313,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 60 mph, on September 21, 2007. February has had the most flash floods, 15 of 33. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 512 have had fewer than Burbank.

Flood insurance policyholders in Burbank's 4 ZIP codes have filed 49 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $255,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1980: 12 claims (24% of all) and $58,000, then Mid-Winter California Flooding in 2018 with 10. The year with the most claims was 2018, with 11. 53% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 234 have fewer than Burbank.