Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sugar Land, TX

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Sugar Land, TX, 2 miles northwest of Sugar Land at 84 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 94°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 43°F. June is the wettest at 5.7 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 51.1 inches over 56 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 58% of the year's precipitation (29.4 of 51.1 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 5.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 116 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 7 nights a year. That 51.1 inches is more than at 283 of the 312 Texas stations used on this site (91%). Stafford, 4 miles northeast, has its own station (Houston Sugarland Mem, TX): 49.8 inches a year, 1.3 less than here, and the same August average high, 94°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Manchester, TX, 24 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, 40 miles from Sugar Land, 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 106 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Sugar Land: 66 thunderstorm wind reports, 23 flash floods, 15 lightning strikes and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 2 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $21.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 77 mph, on March 15, 2024. Of the 745 Texas cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 481 have had fewer than Sugar Land.

Flood insurance policyholders in Sugar Land's 3 ZIP codes have filed 1,141 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $38.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Harvey in 2017: 588 claims (52% of all) and $31.7 million, then Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 with 70 and Flooding in 1983 with 68. 82% 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, 379 have fewer than Sugar Land.