Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Orangeburg, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Dobbs Ferry-Ardsley, NY, 7 miles southeast of Orangeburg at 200 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 23°F. December is the wettest at 4.7 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.3 inches; the year adds up to 51.3 inches over 80 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (26.4 of 51.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 45 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 77°F and 4.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 19 days a year, almost all from May to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 109 nights a year. Snowfall averages 32.7 inches a year, most of it in February. That 51.3 inches is more than at 127 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (93%). Emerson, NJ, 6 miles southwest, has its own station (Teterboro Airport, NJ): 46.4 inches a year, 4.9 less than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 86°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 19 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, 19 miles from Orangeburg, 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 607 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Orangeburg: 281 thunderstorm wind reports, 225 flash floods, 69 floods, 31 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 6 people and injured 21, and the NWS estimated $142.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 90 mph, on August 6, 2008. July has had the most flash floods, 62 of 225. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 768 have had fewer than Orangeburg.

Flood insurance policyholders in Orangeburg's ZIP code 10962 have filed 80 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $329,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Not a named storm in 1979: 10 claims (13% of all) and $19,000. 29% 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, 352 have fewer than Orangeburg.