Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Poulsbo, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bremerton, WA, 12 miles south of Poulsbo at 110 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 77°F and low of 55°F; December is the coolest, at 46°F and 35°F. December is the wettest at 9.9 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.8 inches; the year adds up to 56.9 inches over 102 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 4 days a year, almost all from July to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 42 nights a year. Snowfall averages 3.0 inches a year, most of it in December. That 56.9 inches is more than at 66 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (77%). Kingston, 7 miles northeast, has its own station (Everett Snohomish Airport, WA): 33.4 inches a year, 23.5 less than here, and an August average high of 73°F against 77°F.

Sea level at the Seattle tide gauge, 17 miles from Poulsbo, 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 Poulsbo's ZIP code 98370 have filed 23 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $193,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 4% 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, 29 have fewer than Poulsbo.