Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Lakeville, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Rochester, MA, 4 miles southeast of Lakeville at 65 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 63°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 20°F. March is the wettest at 5.7 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 3.4 inches; the year adds up to 53.6 inches over 85 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 48% of the year's precipitation (25.8 of 53.6 inches); the other six months are wetter. September has brought the most of the 57 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 74°F and 4.4 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 115 nights a year. Snowfall averages 30.8 inches a year, most of it in January. That 53.6 inches is more than at 62 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (95%). East Taunton, 4 miles northwest, has its own station (Taunton Municipal Airport, MA): 47.7 inches a year, 5.9 less than here, and a July average high of 84°F against 82°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Fall River, MA, 14 miles southwest, averaged 75°F in July and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Providence tide gauge, 23 miles from Lakeville, has risen 1.04 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1938 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 58 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 104 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Lakeville: 68 thunderstorm wind reports, 23 floods, 9 lightning strikes and 4 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $990,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on August 10, 2012.

Flood insurance policyholders in Lakeville's ZIP code 02347 have filed 40 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $613,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from March 2010 Nor'easter in 2010: 25 claims (63% of all) and $575,000. 68% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 229 Massachusetts cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 116 have fewer than Lakeville.