Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit New Milford, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Teterboro Airport, NJ, 6 miles south of New Milford at 9 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 69°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 26°F. July is the wettest at 4.5 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 46.4 inches over 76 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 46.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 44 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 29 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 89 nights a year. That 46.4 inches is more than at 15 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (29%). Demarest, 3 miles northeast, has its own station (Dobbs Ferry-Ardsley, NY): 51.3 inches a year, 4.9 more than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 16 miles southeast, averaged 74°F in August and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Kings Point tide gauge, 16 miles from New Milford, has risen 1.08 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 62 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 883 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of New Milford: 382 thunderstorm wind reports, 352 flash floods, 107 floods, 41 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 8 people and injured 32, and the NWS estimated $185.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 110 mph, on October 7, 2013. July has had the most flash floods, 96 of 352. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 410 have had fewer than New Milford.

Flood insurance policyholders in New Milford's ZIP code 07646 have filed 824 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $30.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 2011: 170 claims (21% of all) and $7.8 million, then April 2007 Nor'easter in 2007 with 151 and Hurricane Ida in 2021 with 94. 83% 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, 343 have fewer than New Milford.