NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Oak View, 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 View, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 9 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 9
- 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 View
The highest rating among the 9 tornadoes within 25 miles is F0 or EF0, reached 9 times; the most recent, on February 13, 2025, came within 18 miles. Of the 9, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 6 have come since 2000. Of the 705 California cities on this site, 63% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Oak View.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Oak View
By decade
- 2020s2
- 2010s2
- 2000s2
- 1990s2
- 1980s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2025 | EF0 | 18 mi | 0.63 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 21, 2023 | EF0 | 14 mi | 0.24 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Dec 25, 2019 | EF0 | 11 mi | 0.84 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 21, 2010 | EF0 | 12 mi | 1.51 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 24, 2008 | EF0 | 22 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 10, 2005 | F0 | 14 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 13, 1998 | F0 | 18 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 24, 1994 | F0 | 23 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 9, 1982 | F0 | 22 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 9 of 9, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Oak View
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Oak View since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Oak View
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Ojai, CA, 5 miles northeast of Oak View at 745 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 54°F; December is the coolest, at 65°F and 33°F. February is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 20.6 inches over 25 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 76 days a year, almost all from April to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 31 nights a year. That 20.6 inches is more than at 145 of the 226 California stations used on this site (64%). Ventura, 9 miles southeast, has its own station (Oxnard Ventura Co Airport, CA): 13.0 inches a year, 7.6 less than here, and an August average high of 74°F against 91°F.
Sea level at the Santa Barbara tide gauge, 22 miles from Oak View, has risen 0.41 ± 0.16 inches per decade from 1973 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 4.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 23 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 66 | 35 | 5.1 | 5 |
| Feb | 67 | 36 | 5.2 | 5 |
| Mar | 70 | 39 | 3.4 | 5 |
| Apr | 74 | 41 | 1.1 | 2 |
| May | 77 | 46 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Jun | 82 | 50 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Jul | 89 | 54 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Aug | 91 | 54 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Sep | 88 | 51 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Oct | 81 | 45 | 0.8 | 1 |
| Nov | 73 | 37 | 1.3 | 2 |
| Dec | 65 | 33 | 2.9 | 4 |
| Year | 77 | 43 | 20.6 | 25 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Ojai, CA (745 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. 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 View
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 24 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Oak View: 14 flash floods, 8 thunderstorm wind reports and 2 floods. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $1,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 70 mph, on February 16, 2026. January has had the most flash floods, 6 of 14. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 363 have had fewer than Oak View.
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 View's ZIP code 93022 have filed 82 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $785,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1995: 44 claims (54% of all) and $355,000, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 13. 71% 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, 293 have fewer than Oak View.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Flooding1995 | 44 | $355,000 |
| Pineapple Express - Southern1998 | 13 | $37,000 |
Ventura County, which includes Oak View, 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).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.