Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Dixon, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Davis 2 WSW Exp Farm, CA, 8 miles north of Dixon 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%). Vacaville, 10 miles southwest, has its own station (Vacaville Nut Tree Airport, CA): 25.0 inches a year, 5.8 more than here, and a July average high of 95°F against 93°F.

Sea level at the Port Chicago tide gauge, 28 miles from Dixon, 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 13 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Dixon: 10 floods, 2 heavy rain events and 1 thunderstorm wind report. They killed 1 person and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $15.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on December 22, 1996.

Flood insurance policyholders in Dixon's ZIP code 95620 have filed 29 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $382,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1986: 10 claims (34% of all) and $248,000. 41% 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, 142 have fewer than Dixon.