Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pascoag, RI

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is N Foster 1 E, RI, 8 miles south of Pascoag at 630 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 80°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 35°F and 19°F. March and December are the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 3.6 inches; the year adds up to 53.8 inches over 87 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 49% of the year's precipitation (26.5 of 53.8 inches); the other six months are wetter. September has brought the most of the 54 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (22); a normal September there has highs of 72°F and 4.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 4 days a year, almost all from July. Lows fall below freezing on about 133 nights a year. Snowfall averages 62.0 inches a year, most of it in February. That 53.8 inches is more than at 9 of the 10 Rhode Island stations used on this site (90%). Harrisville, 4 miles east, has its own station (Woonsocket, RI): 52.0 inches a year, 1.8 less than here, and a July average high of 84°F against 80°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Providence, RI, 20 miles southeast, averaged 72°F in August and 36°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Providence tide gauge, 20 miles from Pascoag, has risen 1.04 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1938 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 58 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 100 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Pascoag: 75 thunderstorm wind reports, 10 lightning strikes, 9 floods, 4 flash floods and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 0 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $659,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 75 mph, on October 7, 2020.

Flood insurance policyholders in Pascoag's ZIP code 02859 have filed 13 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 2005, and were paid $63,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 31% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 38 Rhode Island cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 2 have fewer than Pascoag.