Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Ferndale, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bellingham International Airport, WA, 6 miles southeast of Ferndale at 149 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 73°F and low of 55°F; December is the coolest, at 46°F and 34°F. November is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.9 inches; the year adds up to 34.8 inches over 92 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs of 90°F are rare: fewer than one day a year on average. Lows fall below freezing on about 59 nights a year. That 34.8 inches is more than at 43 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (50%). Custer, 5 miles north, has its own station (Blaine, WA): 41.8 inches a year, 7.0 more than here, and the same August average high, 73°F.

Sea level at the Cherry Point tide gauge, 6 miles from Ferndale, has fallen 0.02 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1973 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 0.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 17 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Ferndale's ZIP code 98248 have filed 166 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $4.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1990: 32 claims (19% of all) and $578,000, then 2025-12-AtmosphericRiver in 2025 with 12. 27% 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, 103 have fewer than Ferndale.