Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Elk Grove, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Sacramento Executive Airport, CA, 9 miles northwest of Elk Grove at 15 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 93°F and low of 59°F; December is the coolest, at 56°F and 39°F. January is the wettest at 3.7 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 18.3 inches over 37 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 76 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 15 nights a year. That 18.3 inches is more than at 132 of the 226 California stations used on this site (58%). Wilton, 9 miles east, has its own station (Sacramento 5 ESE, CA): 19.2 inches a year, 0.9 more than here, and a July average high of 94°F against 93°F.

Sea level at the Port Chicago tide gauge, 42 miles from Elk Grove, 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 27 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Elk Grove: 22 floods, 2 flash floods, 2 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 2 people and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $4.5 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 41 mph, on April 11, 2026.

Flood insurance policyholders in Elk Grove's 3 ZIP codes have filed 98 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $2.9 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1997: 36 claims (37% of all) and $750,000, then California Atmospheric River in 2023 with 16. The year with the most claims was 2017, with 35. 57% 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, 314 have fewer than Elk Grove.