Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Oakland Gardens, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is New York Laguardia Airport, NY, 7 miles west of Oakland Gardens at 11 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 72°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 29°F. August is the wettest at 4.4 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.9 inches; the year adds up to 45.4 inches over 75 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (23.6 of 45.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 50 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (22); a normal September there has highs of 77°F and 3.9 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 62 nights a year. Snowfall averages 29.8 inches a year, most of it in February. That 45.4 inches is more than at 85 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (62%). Little Neck, 2 miles northeast, has its own station (Mineola, NY): 45.4 inches a year, the same as here, and a July average high of 87°F against 86°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 4 miles north, 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, 4 miles from Oakland Gardens, 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 508 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Oakland Gardens: 251 thunderstorm wind reports, 205 flash floods, 28 floods, 21 lightning strikes and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 17 people and injured 50, and the NWS estimated $23.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 125 mph, on September 16, 2010. August has had the most flash floods, 55 of 205. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 747 have had fewer than Oakland Gardens.

Flood insurance policyholders in Oakland Gardens's ZIP code 11364 have filed 53 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $558,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 38% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 549 New York cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 290 have fewer than Oakland Gardens.