Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pearland, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston Clover Field, TX, 5 miles southeast of Pearland at 44 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 94°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 65°F and 46°F. October is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and March the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 53.2 inches over 62 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 57% of the year's precipitation (30.4 of 53.2 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 53 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (17); a normal September there has highs of 90°F and 5.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 101 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 6 nights a year. That 53.2 inches is more than at 291 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (93%). Fresno, 9 miles west, has its own station (Thompsons 3 WSW, TX): 50.0 inches a year, 3.2 less than here, and an August average high of 93°F against 94°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Manchester, TX, 13 miles north, averaged 89°F in August and 60°F in February over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to October. Sea level at the Morgans Point tide gauge, 22 miles from Pearland, has risen 1.50 ± 0.24 inches per decade from 1993 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 15.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 90 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 143 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Pearland: 98 thunderstorm wind reports, 30 flash floods, 13 lightning strikes, 1 flood and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 2 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $2.01 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on August 26, 2008. August has had the most flash floods, 6 of 30. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 558 have had fewer than Pearland.

Flood insurance policyholders in Pearland's 3 ZIP codes have filed 5,582 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $191.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 1,441 claims (26% of all) and $120.1 million, then Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 with 1,001 and Flooding in 1994 with 900. 90% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 433 Texas cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 424 have fewer than Pearland.