NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bushkill, PA
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
25 tropical systems have passed within 75 miles of Bushkill, Pennsylvania since 1851, 2 of them at hurricane strength; the most recent was Isaias in 2020. Since 1950, 38 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 3 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 2
- Tropical storms
- 23
- Tornadoes
- 38
- EF3 or stronger
- 3
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Bushkill
The strongest storm to pass near Bushkill was an unnamed storm in 1893, a Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph winds when its centre passed 63 miles away. The closest pass by a hurricane was an unnamed storm in 1878, whose centre came within 30 miles. The record near Bushkill begins with an unnamed storm in 1861; the most recent system was Isaias in 2020, a tropical storm 3 miles away. Of the 25 systems, 3 have come since 2000. Bushkill has more hurricanes within 75 miles than 54% of the 794 Pennsylvania cities on this site. The highest rating among the 38 tornadoes within 25 miles is F3, reached 3 times; the most recent, on May 31, 1998, came within 8 miles. Of the 38, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 12 have come since 2000. May and July have had the most tornadoes, 9 each. The most recent tornado was on May 6, 2025. Of the 794 Pennsylvania cities, 84% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Bushkill. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 24 times since 1990, with stones up to 1.5 inches (ping pong ball size). Of the 794 Pennsylvania cities, 79% have more hail reports within 10 miles than Bushkill.
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Tropical storms and hurricanes near Bushkill
| Year | Storm | Closest | Strength when closest | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | IsaiasAug 4 | 3 mi | Tropical storm (62 mph) | Category 1 |
| 2020 | FayJul 11 | 74 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 2011 | IreneAug 28 | 61 mi | Tropical storm (62 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1996 | BerthaJul 13 | 65 mi | Tropical storm (69 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1979 | DavidSep 6 | 64 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 5 |
| 1972 | AgnesJun 23 | 58 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1971 | DoriaAug 28 | 60 mi | Tropical storm (60 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1955 | DianeAug 19 | 50 mi | Tropical storm (45 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1952 | AbleSep 1 | 18 mi | Tropical storm (56 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1949 | Unnamed 1949 stormAug 29 | 41 mi | Tropical storm (56 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1934 | Unnamed 1934 stormJun 19 | 72 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1929 | Unnamed 1929 stormOct 3 | 33 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1924 | Unnamed 1924 stormSep 30 | 60 mi | Tropical storm (68 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1915 | Unnamed 1915 stormAug 4 | 35 mi | Tropical storm (56 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1903 | Unnamed 1903 stormSep 16 | 25 mi | Tropical storm (63 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1899 | Unnamed 1899 stormNov 1 | 6 mi | Tropical storm (55 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1893 | Unnamed 1893 stormAug 29 | 8 mi | Tropical storm (63 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1893 | Unnamed 1893 stormAug 24 | 63 mi | Category 1 (85 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1888 | Unnamed 1888 stormAug 22 | 8 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1878 | Unnamed 1878 stormOct 23 | 30 mi | Category 1 (82 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1874 | Unnamed 1874 stormSep 29 | 69 mi | Tropical storm (67 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1872 | Unnamed 1872 stormOct 26 | 72 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1866 | Unnamed 1866 stormOct 30 | 50 mi | Tropical storm (59 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1863 | Unnamed 1863 stormSep 19 | 47 mi | Tropical storm (49 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1861 | Unnamed 1861 stormSep 28 | 74 mi | Tropical storm (63 mph) | Category 1 |
Strength is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, which is not the wind felt in Bushkill: a hurricane's worst winds sit within a few dozen miles of its centre, and inland cities are usually past that.
Tornadoes within 25 miles of Bushkill
By decade
- 2020s2
- 2010s4
- 2000s6
- 1990s10(1 EF3+)
- 1980s9
- 1970s6(2 EF3+)
- 1950s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 1998 | F3 | 8 mi | 20 mi | 0 / 2 |
| Mar 21, 1976 | F3 | 15 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 28, 1973 | F3 | 25 mi | 0.4 mi | 0 / 12 |
| Jul 23, 2010 | EF2 | 21 mi | 25.72 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 29, 2009 | EF2 | 18 mi | 6.56 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 29, 2009 | EF2 | 15 mi | 4.58 mi | 0 / 2 |
| May 31, 1998 | F2 | 17 mi | 3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 31, 1998 | F2 | 17 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 26, 1981 | F2 | 20 mi | 0.8 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 20, 1981 | F2 | 20 mi | 3.6 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 20, 1981 | F2 | 17 mi | 4.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 5, 1979 | F2 | 24 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 38, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Bushkill
The Storm Prediction Center has 24 hail reports within 10 miles of Bushkill since 1990, made on 19 separate days. Of these, 10 were 1 inch across or larger, and none reached 2 inches. The largest, 1.5 inches (ping pong ball size), fell on July 13, 2023, the most recent report. June has the most reports, 12.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Bushkill
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is E Stroudsburg, PA, 14 miles southwest of Bushkill at 471 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 36°F and 19°F. June is the wettest at 5.5 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 53.4 inches over 86 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (29.4 of 53.4 inches); the other six months are drier. August has brought the most of the 25 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (9); a normal August there has highs of 82°F and 4.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 16 days a year, almost all from May to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 137 nights a year. Snowfall averages 41.6 inches a year, most of it in January. That 53.4 inches is more than at 144 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (97%). Dingmans Ferry, 7 miles north, has its own station (Sussex 3 WNW, NJ): 48.9 inches a year, 4.5 less than here, and a July average high of 83°F against 84°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Snow in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 36 | 19 | 3.8 | 7 | 11.3 |
| Feb | 39 | 21 | 3.1 | 6 | 10.3 |
| Mar | 48 | 28 | 4.0 | 7 | 9.5 |
| Apr | 62 | 37 | 4.3 | 8 | 0.9 |
| May | 72 | 47 | 4.4 | 8 | 0.0 |
| Jun | 80 | 56 | 5.5 | 8 | 0.0 |
| Jul | 84 | 61 | 4.7 | 8 | 0.0 |
| Aug | 82 | 59 | 4.8 | 8 | 0.0 |
| Sep | 75 | 52 | 5.3 | 6 | 0.0 |
| Oct | 63 | 40 | 5.2 | 7 | 0.1 |
| Nov | 51 | 32 | 3.9 | 6 | 1.5 |
| Dec | 40 | 25 | 4.4 | 8 | 8.0 |
| Year | 61 | 40 | 53.4 | 86 | 41.6 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at E Stroudsburg, PA (471 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Bushkill
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 107 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bushkill: 78 thunderstorm wind reports, 14 floods, 11 flash floods, 3 heavy rain events and 1 lightning strike. They killed 0 people and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $14.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 69 mph, on August 3, 2006. August has had the most flash floods, 4 of 11. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 188 have had fewer than Bushkill.
September 7, 1998: thunderstorm wind 9 miles from the centre of Bushkill — 5 injured.
August 28, 2011: flood 4 miles from the centre of Bushkill — $12.5 million damage.
NWS: “Flooding affected Branchville, Frankford, Hampton, Hardyston, Newton, Ogdensburg and Vernon the hardest in Sussex County. S.”
March 11, 2011: flood 5 miles from the centre of Bushkill — $700,000 damage.
NWS: “Flooding along the Delaware River washed out eighty feet of River Road in Pohatcong Township. In Harmony Township, river flooding occurred along Hutchinson River Road.”
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Bushkill's ZIP code 18324 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 2004, and were paid $57,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 50% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 553 Pennsylvania cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 58 have fewer than Bushkill.
Pike County, which includes Bushkill, has been named in 18 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1965, 13 of them major disasters (by incident: 6 hurricanes, 4 severe storms, 3 floods, 2 biological emergencies). The latest major disaster declaration was Covid-19 Pandemic, on March 30, 2020. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Pike County a Relatively Low rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Moderate for inland flooding and strong wind; Relatively Low for hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning and heat waves; Very Low for hail. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $24.5 million a year, the 37th highest of 67 Pennsylvania counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $17.9 million (73%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.
Cities near Bushkill
- Dingmans Ferry, PA7 mi
- East Stroudsburg, PA11 mi
- Newton, NJ11 mi
- Blairstown, NJ13 mi
- Branchville, NJ13 mi
- Canadensis, PA14 mi
- Milford, PA14 mi
- Henryville, PA14 mi
- Cresco, PA15 mi
- Columbia, NJ15 mi
- Lafayette, NJ16 mi
- Montague, NJ16 mi
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