Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Richmond Hill, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is New York Jfk International Airport, NY, 6 miles southeast of Richmond Hill at 11 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 69°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 26°F. August is the wettest at 4.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 43.5 inches over 74 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (22.3 of 43.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 47 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 3.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 11 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 74 nights a year. Snowfall averages 25.9 inches a year, most of it in February. That 43.5 inches is more than at 66 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (48%). Kew Gardens, under a mile north, has its own station (New York Laguardia Airport, NY): 45.4 inches a year, 1.9 more than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 84°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 9 miles northeast, averaged 74°F in August and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Kings Point tide gauge, 9 miles from Richmond Hill, has risen 1.08 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 62 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 577 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Richmond Hill: 279 thunderstorm wind reports, 230 flash floods, 42 floods, 21 lightning strikes and 5 heavy rain events. They killed 21 people and injured 53, and the NWS estimated $130.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 125 mph, on September 16, 2010. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 770 have had fewer than Richmond Hill.

Flood insurance policyholders in Richmond Hill's ZIP code 11418 have filed 17 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $57,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 41% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 549 New York cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 84 have fewer than Richmond Hill.