NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Oak Park, CA
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Oak Park, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 14 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 14
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Oak Park
The strongest of the 14 tornadoes within 25 miles was an F2 on November 9, 1982; its path came within 18 miles. Of the 14, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 4 have come since 2000. January has had the most tornadoes, 4. The most recent tornado was on February 13, 2025. Oak Park has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 50% of the 705 California cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 3 times since 1999, with stones up to 1.5 inches (ping pong ball size). Of the 705 California cities, 44% have more hail reports within 10 miles than Oak Park.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Oak Park
By decade
- 2020s1
- 2010s1
- 2000s2
- 1990s4
- 1980s3
- 1970s1
- 1960s1
- 1950s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 1982 | F2 | 18 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 9, 1982 | F1 | 12 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 31, 1979 | F1 | 23 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 13, 2025 | EF0 | 22 mi | 0.63 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 21, 2010 | EF0 | 24 mi | 1.51 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 24, 2008 | EF0 | 21 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 10, 2005 | F0 | 23 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 1, 1999 | F0 | 11 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 13, 1998 | F0 | 18 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 7, 1994 | F0 | 24 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 7, 1992 | F0 | 9 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 9, 1982 | F0 | 21 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 14, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Oak Park
The Storm Prediction Center has 3 hail reports within 10 miles of Oak Park since 1999. All were 1 inch across or larger, and none reached 2 inches. The largest, 1.5 inches (ping pong ball size), fell on January 21, 2010. The most recent report is from October 19, 2010.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Oak Park
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Woodland Hills Pierce College, CA, 11 miles east of Oak Park at 790 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 97°F and low of 61°F; December is the coolest, at 69°F and 42°F. February is the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 16.5 inches over 22 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 115 days a year, almost all from March to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 11 nights a year. That 16.5 inches is more than at 117 of the 226 California stations used on this site (52%). Westlake Village, 4 miles west, has its own station (Camarillo Airport, CA): 12.0 inches a year, 4.5 less than here, and an August average high of 80°F against 97°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Santa Monica, CA, 20 miles southeast, averaged 69°F in August and 58°F in January and March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Santa Monica tide gauge, 20 miles from Oak Park, has risen 0.60 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1933 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 6.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 28 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 70 | 43 | 3.7 | 5 | 58 |
| Feb | 70 | 44 | 4.6 | 5 | 58 |
| Mar | 74 | 46 | 2.7 | 4 | 58 |
| Apr | 78 | 48 | 0.8 | 1 | 59 |
| May | 82 | 53 | 0.4 | 1 | 62 |
| Jun | 89 | 57 | 0.1 | 0 | 66 |
| Jul | 95 | 61 | 0.0 | 0 | 68 |
| Aug | 97 | 61 | 0.0 | 0 | 69 |
| Sep | 94 | 59 | 0.1 | 0 | 69 |
| Oct | 85 | 53 | 0.6 | 1 | 65 |
| Nov | 76 | 46 | 0.8 | 2 | 62 |
| Dec | 69 | 42 | 2.7 | 3 | 60 |
| Year | 82 | 51 | 16.5 | 22 | 63 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Woodland Hills Pierce College, CA (790 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Santa Monica, CA, from NOAA Tides & Currents. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Oak Park
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 18 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Oak Park: 11 flash floods, 6 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 1 person and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $1,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 64 mph, on March 13, 2025. August has had the most flash floods, 5 of 11. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 304 have had fewer than Oak Park.
January 20, 2010: flash flood 8 miles from the centre of Oak Park — 1 killed.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Oak Park's ZIP code 91377 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1998, and were paid $168,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 29% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 36 have fewer than Oak Park.
Ventura County, which includes Oak Park, has been named in 53 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1965, 29 of them major disasters (by incident: 28 fires, 10 floods, 7 severe storms, 2 biological emergencies). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on April 13, 2024. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Ventura County a Relatively High rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Very High for inland flooding; Relatively Moderate for coastal flooding, lightning and heat waves; Relatively Low for tornadoes, hail and strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $762.2 million a year, the 10th highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $312.8 million (41%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
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