Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Millington, MD

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Chestertown, MD, 11 miles west of Millington at 40 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 69°F; January is the coolest, at 41°F and 27°F. September is the wettest at 4.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.9 inches; the year adds up to 46.1 inches over 77 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (24.2 of 46.1 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 43 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (16); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.9 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 37 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 97 nights a year. Snowfall averages 16.7 inches a year, most of it in February. That 46.1 inches is more than at 21 of the 41 Maryland stations used on this site (51%). Clayton, DE, 10 miles east, has its own station (Dover, DE): 47.7 inches a year, 1.6 more than here, and the same July average high, 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Chesapeake City, MD, 19 miles north, averaged 84°F in July and 38°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July to August. Sea level at the Chesapeake City tide gauge, 19 miles from Millington, has risen 1.76 ± 0.12 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 17.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 111 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 159 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Millington: 125 thunderstorm wind reports, 14 heavy rain events, 13 flash floods, 4 floods and 3 lightning strikes. They killed 0 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $159,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 86 mph, on March 16, 2026. August has had the most flash floods, 6 of 13. Of the 239 Maryland cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 36 have had fewer than Millington.

Flood insurance policyholders in Millington's ZIP code 21651 have filed 35 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $722,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 2011: 13 claims (37% of all) and $348,000. 71% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 150 Maryland cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 67 have fewer than Millington.