NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sutter Creek, CA
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Sutter Creek, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 8 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 8
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Sutter Creek
The highest rating among the 8 tornadoes within 25 miles is F1 or EF1, reached 4 times; the most recent, on January 10, 2023, came within 21 miles. Of the 8, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 6 have come since 2000. The most recent tornado was on January 14, 2023. Of the 705 California cities on this site, 68% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Sutter Creek.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Sutter Creek
By decade
- 2020s4
- 2010s2
- 1980s2
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2023 | EF1 | 21 mi | 0.39 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 24, 2015 | EF1 | 24 mi | 6.21 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 23, 2010 | EF1 | 16 mi | 1.99 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 19, 1988 | F1 | 25 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 14, 2023 | EF0 | 20 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 18, 2020 | EF0 | 19 mi | 4.39 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 18, 2020 | EF0 | 14 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 29, 1980 | F0 | 20 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 8 of 8, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Sutter Creek
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Sutter Creek since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Sutter Creek
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Camp Pardee, CA, 11 miles south of Sutter Creek at 658 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 95°F and low of 63°F; December is the coolest, at 55°F and 40°F. December is the wettest at 4.2 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 22.9 inches over 43 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 87 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 7 nights a year. That 22.9 inches is more than at 159 of the 226 California stations used on this site (70%). El Dorado, 17 miles north, has its own station (Pacific House, CA): 54.5 inches a year, 31.6 more than here, and a July average high of 90°F against 95°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 55 | 40 | 4.0 | 8 |
| Feb | 59 | 43 | 3.8 | 7 |
| Mar | 64 | 45 | 3.6 | 7 |
| Apr | 69 | 48 | 2.2 | 4 |
| May | 79 | 53 | 1.3 | 3 |
| Jun | 88 | 59 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Jul | 95 | 63 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Aug | 94 | 63 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Sep | 88 | 61 | 0.2 | 1 |
| Oct | 78 | 54 | 1.1 | 2 |
| Nov | 64 | 46 | 2.2 | 5 |
| Dec | 55 | 40 | 4.2 | 7 |
| Year | 74 | 51 | 22.9 | 43 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Camp Pardee, CA (658 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Sutter Creek
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 12 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Sutter Creek: 9 floods and 3 thunderstorm wind reports. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $153,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 58 mph, on January 20, 2019.
December 31, 2022: flood 9 miles from the centre of Sutter Creek — $100,000 damage.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Sutter Creek's ZIP code 95685 have filed 22 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $209,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1997: 14 claims (64% of all) and $82,000. 73% 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, 103 have fewer than Sutter Creek.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Flooding1997 | 14 | $82,000 |
Amador County, which includes Sutter Creek, has been named in 21 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1964, 15 of them major disasters (by incident: 9 severe storms, 6 floods, 2 biological emergencies, 2 fires). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on April 3, 2023. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Amador County a Relatively Low rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Low for inland flooding, lightning and heat waves; Very Low for tornadoes, hail and strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $38.8 million a year, the 50th highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $12.5 million (32%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
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