Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Raceland, LA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Thibodaux 4 SE, LA, 10 miles west of Raceland at 15 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 45°F. June is the wettest at 8.7 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 3.8 inches; the year adds up to 71.3 inches over 89 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 56% of the year's precipitation (40.1 of 71.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 79 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (31); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 6.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 83 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 11 nights a year. That 71.3 inches is more than at 80 of the 81 Louisiana stations used on this site (99%). Lockport, 10 miles southeast, has its own station (Galliano, LA): 66.8 inches a year, 4.5 less than here, and a July average high of 89°F against 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station West Bank 1, Bayou Gauche, LA, 12 miles northeast, averaged 88°F in July and August and 56°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the New Canal tide gauge, 37 miles from Raceland, has risen 2.36 ± 0.19 inches per decade from 1982 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 23.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 131 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 43 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Raceland: 26 thunderstorm wind reports, 12 flash floods, 3 lightning strikes and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 1 person and injured 0, and the NWS estimated $514,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 69 mph, on May 3, 2017. Of the 239 Louisiana cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 96 have had fewer than Raceland.

Flood insurance policyholders in Raceland's ZIP code 70394 have filed 466 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $6.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from 2026-06-Arthur-TS in 2026: 60 claims (13% of all) and $2.9 million, then Flooding in 1991 with 59 and Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 with 49. The year with the most claims was 2009, with 98. 61% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 219 Louisiana cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 142 have fewer than Raceland.