Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Stafford, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Houston Sugarland Mem, TX, 5 miles west of Stafford at 82 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 95°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 45°F. August is the wettest at 5.3 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 49.8 inches over 63 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (26.6 of 49.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 53 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (17); a normal September there has highs of 90°F and 4.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 112 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 10 nights a year. That 49.8 inches is more than at 267 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (86%). Sugar Land, 4 miles southwest, has its own station (Sugar Land, TX): 51.1 inches a year, 1.3 more than here, and a July average high of 94°F against 95°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Manchester, TX, 20 miles east, averaged 89°F in August and 60°F in February over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to October. Sea level at the Morgans Point tide gauge, 35 miles from Stafford, has risen 1.50 ± 0.24 inches per decade from 1993 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 15.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 90 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 121 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Stafford: 78 thunderstorm wind reports, 28 flash floods, 14 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 1 person and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $19.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 77 mph, on March 15, 2024. May has had the most flash floods, 7 of 28. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 543 have had fewer than Stafford.

Flood insurance policyholders in Stafford's ZIP code 77477 have filed 296 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1981, and were paid $3.9 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 65 claims (22% of all) and $1.9 million, then Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 with 36 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 with 27. 72% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 433 Texas cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 311 have fewer than Stafford.