Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Clatskanie, OR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Clatskanie, OR, 4 miles northeast of Clatskanie at 22 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 76°F and low of 52°F; December is the coolest, at 46°F and 33°F. December is the wettest at 9.4 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.6 inches; the year adds up to 54.7 inches over 115 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 4 days a year, almost all from July to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 70 nights a year. Snowfall averages 2.3 inches a year, most of it in December. That 54.7 inches is more than at 57 of the 77 Oregon stations used on this site (74%). Longview, WA, 15 miles east, has its own station (Longview, WA): 48.0 inches a year, 6.7 less than here, and an August average high of 80°F against 76°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Longview, WA, 15 miles east, averaged 72°F in August and 42°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Astoria tide gauge, 26 miles from Clatskanie, has fallen 0.06 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1925 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 0.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 16 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Clatskanie's ZIP code 97016 have filed 47 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1996, and were paid $2.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Winter storm in 2007: 23 claims (49% of all) and $1.2 million, then Flooding in 1996 with 11. 72% 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, 53 have fewer than Clatskanie.