Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Freeland, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Port Townsend, WA, 12 miles northwest of Freeland at 100 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 73°F and low of 54°F; December is the coolest, at 45°F and 38°F. December is the wettest at 2.6 inches of precipitation on average and August the driest at 0.5 inches; the year adds up to 19.0 inches over 60 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 1 days a year. Lows fall below freezing on about 14 nights a year. Snowfall averages 0.6 inches a year, most of it in December. That 19.0 inches is more than at 33 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (38%). Langley, 4 miles east, has its own station (Everett Snohomish Airport, WA): 33.4 inches a year, 14.4 more than here, and the same August average high, 73°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Townsend, WA, 12 miles northwest, averaged 53°F in August and 46°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Port Townsend tide gauge, 12 miles from Freeland, has risen 0.72 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 34 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Freeland's ZIP code 98249 have filed 42 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $401,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2006, with 11. 7% 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, 52 have fewer than Freeland.