NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Custer, WA
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
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Custer, Washington since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 1 tornado has touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 1
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Custer
The only tornado within 25 miles was an F0 on April 27, 2004; its path came within 19 miles. Of the 226 Washington cities on this site, 90% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Custer.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Custer
By decade
- 2000s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2004 | F0 | 19 mi | 2.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 1 of 1, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Custer
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Custer since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Custer
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Blaine, WA, 8 miles northwest of Custer at 60 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 73°F and low of 55°F; December is the coolest, at 44°F and 34°F. January is the wettest at 6.2 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 1.1 inches; the year adds up to 41.8 inches over 105 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs of 90°F are rare: fewer than one day a year on average. Lows fall below freezing on about 52 nights a year. Snowfall averages 9.3 inches a year, most of it in January. That 41.8 inches is more than at 52 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (60%). Ferndale, 5 miles south, has its own station (Bellingham International Airport, WA): 34.8 inches a year, 7.0 less than here, and the same July average high, 73°F.
Sea level at the Cherry Point tide gauge, 7 miles from Custer, has fallen 0.02 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1973 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 0.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 17 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Snow in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 45 | 34 | 6.2 | 14 | 3.7 |
| Feb | 48 | 35 | 3.4 | 10 | 0.8 |
| Mar | 52 | 38 | 4.2 | 12 | 1.0 |
| Apr | 58 | 42 | 3.0 | 9 | 0.0 |
| May | 64 | 47 | 2.6 | 7 | 0.0 |
| Jun | 69 | 52 | 1.9 | 5 | 0.0 |
| Jul | 73 | 55 | 1.1 | 3 | 0.0 |
| Aug | 73 | 55 | 1.1 | 3 | 0.0 |
| Sep | 67 | 50 | 2.2 | 6 | 0.0 |
| Oct | 57 | 44 | 4.4 | 10 | 0.1 |
| Nov | 50 | 38 | 6.1 | 14 | 0.4 |
| Dec | 44 | 34 | 5.6 | 13 | 3.3 |
| Year | 58 | 44 | 41.8 | 105 | 9.3 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Blaine, WA (60 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.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Whatcom County, which includes Custer, has been named in 27 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1971, 23 of them major disasters (by incident: 13 floods, 6 severe storms, 2 biological emergencies, 2 fires). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on April 7, 2026. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Whatcom County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Moderate for inland flooding, coastal flooding, lightning and heat waves; Very Low for tornadoes, hail and strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $111.5 million a year, the 9th highest of 39 Washington counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $40.4 million (36%), 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 Custer
- Blaine, WA5 mi
- Ferndale, WA5 mi
- Lynden, WA8 mi
- Everson, WA14 mi
- Bellingham, WA15 mi
- Maple Falls, WA18 mi
- Sumas, WA20 mi
- Deming, WA24 mi
- Bow, WA28 mi
- Anacortes, WA30 mi
- Burlington, WA34 mi
- Sedro Woolley, WA36 mi
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