Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Gold Beach, OR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Gold Beach Rs, OR, 4 miles southwest of Gold Beach at 50 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 69°F and low of 53°F; December is the coolest, at 54°F and 42°F. December is the wettest at 13.2 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.3 inches; the year adds up to 75.4 inches over 102 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 5 nights a year. That 75.4 inches is more than at 65 of the 77 Oregon stations used on this site (84%). Brookings, 25 miles south, has its own station (Brookings, OR): 77.8 inches a year, 2.4 more than here, and an August average high of 66°F against 69°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Orford, OR, 21 miles north, averaged 54°F in November and 48°F in May over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Port Orford tide gauge, 21 miles from Gold Beach, has fallen 0.02 ± 0.17 inches per decade from 1977 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 Gold Beach's ZIP code 97444 have filed 37 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1986, and were paid $926,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1997: 13 claims (35% of all) and $107,000. The year with the most claims was 2012, with 10. 35% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 77 Oregon cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 45 have fewer than Gold Beach.