Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Freeport, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Oceanside, NY, 3 miles southwest of Freeport at 12 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 67°F; January is the coolest, at 39°F and 26°F. March and June are the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 48.8 inches over 82 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (24.8 of 48.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 52 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 75°F and 3.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 10 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 89 nights a year. Snowfall averages 25.5 inches a year, most of it in February. That 48.8 inches is more than at 115 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (84%). Merrick, 2 miles northeast, has its own station (Wantagh Cedar Creek, NY): 42.8 inches a year, 6.0 less than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 82°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 14 miles northwest, averaged 74°F in August and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Kings Point tide gauge, 14 miles from Freeport, has risen 1.08 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 62 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 286 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Freeport: 141 thunderstorm wind reports, 117 flash floods, 14 floods and 14 lightning strikes. They killed 2 people and injured 27, and the NWS estimated $14.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on June 2, 2000. August has had the most flash floods, 45 of 117. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 674 have had fewer than Freeport.

Flood insurance policyholders in Freeport's ZIP code 11520 have filed 6,598 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $254.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 2,658 claims (40% of all) and $201.6 million, then Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 1,226 and December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992 with 634. 85% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 549 New York cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 546 have fewer than Freeport.