Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Lincoln, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bedford Hanscom Field, MA, 3 miles north of Lincoln at 133 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 62°F; January is the coolest, at 37°F and 18°F. October is the wettest at 4.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.7 inches; the year adds up to 42.6 inches over 78 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (22.1 of 42.6 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 50 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 3.5 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 15 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 139 nights a year. That 42.6 inches is more than at 5 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (8%). Concord, 4 miles northwest, has its own station (Maynard 2, MA): 49.9 inches a year, 7.3 more than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 85°F.

Sea level at the Boston tide gauge, 14 miles from Lincoln, has risen 1.17 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1921 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 68 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 373 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Lincoln: 250 thunderstorm wind reports, 80 floods, 25 flash floods and 18 lightning strikes. They killed 0 people and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $32.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 100 mph, on July 7, 2014. July has had the most flash floods, 10 of 25. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 223 have had fewer than Lincoln.

Flood insurance policyholders in Lincoln's ZIP code 01773 have filed 11 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $44,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 73% 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, 8 have fewer than Lincoln.