Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Marshfield, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Plymouth-Kingston, MA, 9 miles south of Marshfield at 45 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 41°F and 22°F. March is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 3.5 inches; the year adds up to 52.7 inches over 85 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 47% of the year's precipitation (24.6 of 52.7 inches); the other six months are wetter. September has brought the most of the 53 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 4.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 12 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 120 nights a year. Snowfall averages 37.9 inches a year, most of it in February. That 52.7 inches is more than at 61 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (94%). Norwell, 7 miles northwest, has its own station (Hingham, MA): 52.3 inches a year, 0.4 less than here, and a July average high of 83°F against 84°F.

Sea level at the Boston tide gauge, 25 miles from Marshfield, 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 64 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Marshfield: 45 thunderstorm wind reports, 8 floods, 8 lightning strikes and 3 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $16.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 74 mph, on June 1, 2007.

Flood insurance policyholders in Marshfield's ZIP code 02050 have filed 1,394 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $20.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from The "Halloween" Storm in 1991: 350 claims (25% of all) and $6.8 million, then Flooding in 1987 with 169 and December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992 with 131. 51% 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, 224 have fewer than Marshfield.