Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Millville, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Millville Municipal Airport, NJ, 2 miles southwest of Millville at 70 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 66°F; January is the coolest, at 42°F and 24°F. August is the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.6 inches; the year adds up to 43.4 inches over 72 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (23.0 of 43.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 50 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 3.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 22 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 108 nights a year. That 43.4 inches is more than at 4 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (8%). Minotola, 11 miles northeast, has its own station (Estell Manor, NJ): 50.4 inches a year, 7.0 more than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 86°F.

Sea level at the Cape May tide gauge, 29 miles from Millville, has risen 2.01 ± 0.09 inches per decade from 1965 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 20.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 120 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 161 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Millville: 90 thunderstorm wind reports, 31 heavy rain events, 26 floods, 13 flash floods and 1 lightning strike. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $44.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 72 mph, on July 5, 2003. August has had the most flash floods, 7 of 13. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 30 have had fewer than Millville.

Flood insurance policyholders in Millville's ZIP code 08332 have filed 65 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $499,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1980: 15 claims (23% of all) and $126,000. 62% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 395 New Jersey cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 173 have fewer than Millville.