Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Danbury, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Angleton 2 W, TX, 9 miles southwest of Danbury at 27 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 47°F. September is the wettest at 6.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 53.5 inches over 65 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 58% of the year's precipitation (30.8 of 53.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 64 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 88°F and 6.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 83 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 6 nights a year. That 53.5 inches is more than at 292 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (94%). Clute, 14 miles south, has its own station (Freeport 2 NW, TX): 50.0 inches a year, 3.5 less than here, and the same August average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station San Luis Pass, TX, 16 miles southeast, averaged 88°F in August and 57°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the Freeport Harbor tide gauge, 20 miles from Danbury, has risen 1.38 ± 0.12 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 13.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 82 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 46 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Danbury: 37 thunderstorm wind reports, 5 flash floods, 3 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 1 person and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $1.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 75 mph, on March 15, 2024. May has had the most flash floods, 3 of 5. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 68 have had fewer than Danbury.

Flood insurance policyholders in Danbury's ZIP code 77534 have filed 208 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $6.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 64 claims (31% of all) and $4.5 million, then Flooding in 1998 with 32 and Tropical Storm Claudette in 1979 with 28. 72% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 433 Texas cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 293 have fewer than Danbury.