Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sherman Oaks, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Van Nuys Airport, CA, 5 miles northwest of Sherman Oaks at 770 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 93°F and low of 65°F; December is the coolest, at 67°F and 45°F. February is the wettest at 3.8 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 13.6 inches over 19 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 77 days a year, almost all from April to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 1 nights a year. That 13.6 inches is more than at 88 of the 226 California stations used on this site (39%). Valley Village, 3 miles east, has its own station (Burbank Valley Pump Plt, CA): 16.6 inches a year, 3.0 more than here, and an August average high of 88°F against 93°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Santa Monica, CA, 11 miles south, averaged 69°F in August and 58°F in January and March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Santa Monica tide gauge, 11 miles from Sherman Oaks, has risen 0.60 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1933 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 6.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 28 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 54 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Sherman Oaks: 41 flash floods, 9 thunderstorm wind reports and 4 floods. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $313,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 60 mph, on September 21, 2007. February has had the most flash floods, 19 of 41. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 535 have had fewer than Sherman Oaks.

Flood insurance policyholders in Sherman Oaks's 2 ZIP codes have filed 383 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $2.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1980: 149 claims (39% of all) and $693,000, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 39 and February California Atmospheric River in 2024 with 10. 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, 391 have fewer than Sherman Oaks.