Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sacramento, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Sacramento 5 ESE, CA, 1 mile southeast of Sacramento at 38 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 94°F and low of 61°F; December is the coolest, at 56°F and 41°F. January is the wettest at 3.9 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 19.2 inches over 38 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 90 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 4 nights a year. That 19.2 inches is more than at 135 of the 226 California stations used on this site (60%). West Sacramento, 6 miles west, has its own station (Sacramento Executive Airport, CA): 18.3 inches a year, 0.9 less than here, and a July average high of 93°F against 94°F.

Sea level at the Port Chicago tide gauge, 48 miles from Sacramento, has risen 0.77 ± 0.23 inches per decade from 1976 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 36 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 129 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Sacramento: 107 floods, 17 heavy rain events and 5 thunderstorm wind reports. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $138.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on September 2, 2025.

Flood insurance policyholders in Sacramento's 27 ZIP codes have filed 2,688 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $20.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1995: 1,258 claims (47% of all) and $9.9 million, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 125 and California Atmospheric River in 2023 with 74. 54% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 413 have fewer than Sacramento.