Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Saucier, MS

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Saucier Exp Forest, MS, 4 miles northeast of Saucier at 229 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 72°F; January is the coolest, at 61°F and 41°F. July is the wettest at 7.8 inches of precipitation on average and October the driest at 3.8 inches; the year adds up to 70.8 inches over 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (36.0 of 70.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 71 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (31); a normal September there has highs of 87°F and 5.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 79 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 20 nights a year. That 70.8 inches is more than at 86 of the 87 Mississippi stations used on this site (99%). Gulfport, 12 miles south, has its own station (Gulfport - Biloxi Airport, MS): 62.7 inches a year, 8.1 less than here, and the same July average high, 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Bay Waveland Yacht Club, MS, 23 miles southwest, averaged 87°F in July and August and 54°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Bay Waveland tide gauge, 23 miles from Saucier, has risen 1.81 ± 0.13 inches per decade from 1978 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 18.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 112 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 67 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Saucier: 48 thunderstorm wind reports, 14 flash floods, 4 heavy rain events and 1 flood. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $772,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on April 4, 2011. April has had the most flash floods, 4 of 14. Of the 232 Mississippi cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 79 have had fewer than Saucier.

Flood insurance policyholders in Saucier's ZIP code 39574 have filed 85 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $2.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Katrina in 2005: 15 claims (18% of all) and $288,000, then 2026-06-Arthur-TS in 2026 with 13 and Hurricane Georges in 1998 with 10. 62% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 133 Mississippi cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 75 have fewer than Saucier.