Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Camano Island, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Coupeville 1 S, WA, 10 miles west of Camano Island at 50 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 71°F and low of 53°F; December is the coolest, at 44°F and 36°F. November is the wettest at 3.1 inches of precipitation on average and August the driest at 0.7 inches; the year adds up to 21.8 inches over 70 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 1 days a year. Lows fall below freezing on about 32 nights a year. Snowfall averages 2.5 inches a year, most of it in December. That 21.8 inches is more than at 37 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (43%). Greenbank, 8 miles southwest, has its own station (Port Townsend, WA): 19.0 inches a year, 2.8 less than here, and an August average high of 73°F against 71°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Townsend, WA, 14 miles west, averaged 53°F in August and 46°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Port Townsend tide gauge, 14 miles from Camano Island, has risen 0.72 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 34 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Camano Island's ZIP code 98282 have filed 98 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $1.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2016, with 28. 6% 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, 93 have fewer than Camano Island.