NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Fremont, CA
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Fremont, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 10 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 10
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Fremont
The highest rating among the 10 tornadoes within 25 miles is F2, reached 2 times; the most recent, on May 5, 1998, came within 12 miles. Of the 10, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and none has come since 2000. The most recent tornado was on May 5, 1998. Of the 705 California cities on this site, 59% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Fremont.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Fremont
By decade
- 1990s6
- 1980s2
- 1950s2
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 1998 | F2 | 12 mi | 0.6 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Jan 11, 1951 | F2 | 9 mi | 5.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 5, 1998 | F1 | 14 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Jan 14, 1980 | F1 | 7 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Apr 1, 1958 | F1 | 21 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 6, 1998 | F0 | 12 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 8, 1997 | F0 | 16 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 25, 1994 | F0 | 15 mi | 0.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 17, 1992 | F0 | 16 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 29, 1982 | F0 | 15 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 10 of 10, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Fremont
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Fremont since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Fremont
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fremont, CA, 2 miles west of Fremont at 38 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 78°F and low of 57°F; December is the coolest, at 58°F and 43°F. February is the wettest at 3.2 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 16.0 inches over 37 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 12 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 3 nights a year. That 16.0 inches is more than at 111 of the 226 California stations used on this site (49%). Milpitas, 9 miles southeast, has its own station (San Jose, CA): 13.6 inches a year, 2.4 less than here, and an August average high of 81°F against 78°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Redwood City, CA, 13 miles west, averaged 74°F in August and 54°F in January over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Redwood City tide gauge, 13 miles from Fremont, has risen 1.08 ± 0.25 inches per decade from 1974 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.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 59 | 43 | 3.0 | 6 | 54 |
| Feb | 61 | 44 | 3.2 | 7 | 55 |
| Mar | 65 | 46 | 2.5 | 6 | 58 |
| Apr | 68 | 48 | 1.2 | 4 | 62 |
| May | 71 | 52 | 0.5 | 2 | 67 |
| Jun | 75 | 55 | 0.2 | 0 | 70 |
| Jul | 78 | 57 | 0.0 | 0 | 73 |
| Aug | 78 | 57 | 0.0 | 0 | 74 |
| Sep | 78 | 56 | 0.1 | 0 | 73 |
| Oct | 73 | 52 | 0.7 | 2 | 69 |
| Nov | 65 | 46 | 1.6 | 4 | 60 |
| Dec | 58 | 43 | 3.0 | 7 | 55 |
| Year | 69 | 50 | 16.0 | 37 | 64 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Fremont, CA (38 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Redwood City, CA, from NOAA Tides & Currents. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Fremont
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 42 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Fremont: 32 floods, 5 flash floods, 3 thunderstorm wind reports and 2 heavy rain events. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $61,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on January 18, 2010. February has had the most flash floods, 4 of 5. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 163 have had fewer than Fremont.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Fremont's 4 ZIP codes have filed 15 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $51,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 40% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 51 have fewer than Fremont.
Alameda County, which includes Fremont, has been named in 24 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1970, 20 of them major disasters (by incident: 8 severe storms, 7 floods, 2 biological emergencies, 2 fires). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on April 3, 2023. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Alameda County a Very High rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Very High for inland flooding; Relatively High for coastal flooding and heat waves; Relatively Moderate for tornadoes; Relatively Low for hail and lightning; Very Low for strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $1.88 billion a year, the 6th highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $490.5 million (26%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
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