Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Jackson, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Toms River, NJ, 13 miles southeast of Jackson at 10 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 42°F and 22°F. December is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.2 inches; the year adds up to 52.0 inches over 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (26.3 of 52.0 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 52 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 77°F and 4.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 24 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 116 nights a year. That 52.0 inches is more than at 47 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (92%). Howell, 6 miles east, has its own station (Freehold-Marlboro, NJ): 48.5 inches a year, 3.5 less than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 86°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Newbold, PA, 23 miles west, averaged 80°F in July and 37°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July. Sea level at the Sandy Hook tide gauge, 29 miles from Jackson, has risen 1.68 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1932 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 16.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 105 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 217 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Jackson: 146 thunderstorm wind reports, 21 floods, 19 flash floods, 16 heavy rain events and 15 lightning strikes. They killed 3 people and injured 18, and the NWS estimated $2.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on July 22, 2019. July has had the most flash floods, 9 of 19. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 58 have had fewer than Jackson.

Flood insurance policyholders in Jackson's ZIP code 08527 have filed 21 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $57,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 62% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 395 New Jersey cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 57 have fewer than Jackson.