Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Kalama, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Longview, WA, 11 miles northwest of Kalama at 12 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 80°F and low of 53°F; December is the coolest, at 47°F and 35°F. November is the wettest at 7.2 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.6 inches; the year adds up to 48.0 inches over 116 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 9 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 41 nights a year. That 48.0 inches is more than at 57 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (66%). Woodland, 8 miles southeast, has its own station (Scappoose Ind Airport, OR): 42.4 inches a year, 5.6 less than here, and an August average high of 82°F against 80°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Longview, WA, 10 miles northwest, averaged 72°F in August and 42°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Astoria tide gauge, 48 miles from Kalama, has fallen 0.06 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1925 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 0.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 16 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 13 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Kalama: 9 floods and 4 heavy rain events. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $2.1 million in property and crop damage.

Flood insurance policyholders in Kalama's ZIP code 98625 have filed 92 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1986, and were paid $2.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1996: 36 claims (39% of all) and $1.2 million. 40% 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, 92 have fewer than Kalama.