Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Enumclaw, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mud Mountain Dam, WA, 4 miles south of Enumclaw at 1,308 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 76°F and low of 52°F; December is the coolest, at 45°F and 33°F. November is the wettest at 8.0 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 1.5 inches; the year adds up to 60.2 inches. Highs reach 90°F on about 3 days a year, almost all from July. Lows fall below freezing on about 79 nights a year. That 60.2 inches is more than at 69 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (80%). Buckley, 7 miles southwest, has its own station (Buckley 1 NE, WA): 48.2 inches a year, 12.0 less than here, and an August average high of 77°F against 76°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Tacoma, WA, 24 miles west, averaged 56°F in September and 48°F in March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Seattle tide gauge, 34 miles from Enumclaw, has risen 0.82 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1899 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 42 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Enumclaw's ZIP code 98022 have filed 41 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1983, and were paid $723,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1996: 11 claims (27% of all) and $60,000. 46% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 128 Washington cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 51 have fewer than Enumclaw.