Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Fair Lawn, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Teterboro Airport, NJ, 7 miles southeast of Fair Lawn at 9 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 69°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 26°F. July is the wettest at 4.5 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 46.4 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (24.2 of 46.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 45 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 29 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 89 nights a year. That 46.4 inches is more than at 15 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (29%). Hawthorne, 3 miles northwest, has its own station (Caldwell Essex Co Airport, NJ): 44.9 inches a year, 1.5 less than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station The Battery, NY, 17 miles south, averaged 74°F in August and 39°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the The Battery tide gauge, 17 miles from Fair Lawn, has risen 1.16 ± 0.02 inches per decade from 1856 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 66 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 883 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Fair Lawn: 392 thunderstorm wind reports, 334 flash floods, 111 floods, 44 lightning strikes and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 8 people and injured 30, and the NWS estimated $81.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 110 mph, on October 7, 2013. July has had the most flash floods, 104 of 334. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 401 have had fewer than Fair Lawn.

Flood insurance policyholders in Fair Lawn's ZIP code 07410 have filed 373 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $6.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 2011: 132 claims (35% of all) and $3.3 million, then Hurricane Floyd in 1999 with 59 and April 2007 Nor'easter in 2007 with 48. 86% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 395 New Jersey cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 309 have fewer than Fair Lawn.