Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Orting, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mcmillin Rsvr, WA, 8 miles northwest of Orting at 579 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 77°F and low of 53°F; December is the coolest, at 45°F and 33°F. November is the wettest at 7.1 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.9 inches; the year adds up to 45.2 inches over 110 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 3 days a year, almost all from July. Lows fall below freezing on about 60 nights a year. Snowfall averages 5.6 inches a year. That 45.2 inches is more than at 56 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (65%). Buckley, 9 miles northeast, has its own station (Buckley 1 NE, WA): 48.2 inches a year, 3.0 more than here, and the same August average high, 77°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Tacoma, WA, 20 miles northwest, averaged 56°F in September and 48°F in March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Seattle tide gauge, 40 miles from Orting, has risen 0.82 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1899 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 42 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Orting's ZIP code 98360 have filed 77 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $1.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1996: 18 claims (23% of all) and $171,000, then Torrential rain in 2006 with 14. The year with the most claims was 2006, with 17. 45% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 128 Washington cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 88 have fewer than Orting.