Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Davis, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Davis 2 WSW Exp Farm, CA, 3 miles west of Davis at 60 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 93°F and low of 57°F; January and December are the coolest, at 56°F and 38°F. January is the wettest at 4.0 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 19.2 inches over 37 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 88 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 18 nights a year. That 19.2 inches is more than at 135 of the 226 California stations used on this site (60%). West Sacramento, 10 miles east, has its own station (Sacramento Executive Airport, CA): 18.3 inches a year, 0.9 less than here, and the same July average high, 93°F.

Sea level at the Port Chicago tide gauge, 38 miles from Davis, has risen 0.77 ± 0.23 inches per decade from 1976 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 36 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 23 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Davis: 18 floods, 4 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 heavy rain event. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $134.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on April 8, 2005.

Flood insurance policyholders in Davis's 2 ZIP codes have filed 68 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $890,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1995: 17 claims (25% of all) and $204,000, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 11. The year with the most claims was 1982, with 12. 46% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 277 have fewer than Davis.