Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Upper Saddle River, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Wanaque Raymond Dam, NJ, 10 miles west of Upper Saddle River at 245 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 20°F. June is the wettest at 5.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.7 inches; the year adds up to 48.5 inches over 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (26.6 of 48.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 44 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 4.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 14 days a year, almost all from May to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 121 nights a year. That 48.5 inches is more than at 26 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (51%). Woodcliff Lake, 3 miles southeast, has its own station (Dobbs Ferry-Ardsley, NY): 51.3 inches a year, 2.8 more than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 84°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Kings Point, NY, 24 miles southeast, averaged 74°F in August and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Kings Point tide gauge, 24 miles from Upper Saddle River, has risen 1.08 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 62 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 633 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Upper Saddle River: 314 thunderstorm wind reports, 191 flash floods, 92 floods and 36 lightning strikes. They killed 5 people and injured 17, and the NWS estimated $50.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 110 mph, on October 7, 2013. July has had the most flash floods, 60 of 191. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 330 have had fewer than Upper Saddle River.

Flood insurance policyholders in Upper Saddle River's ZIP code 07458 have filed 159 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $1.9 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Floyd in 1999: 30 claims (19% of all) and $240,000, then Hurricane Ida in 2021 with 19 and Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 19. The year with the most claims was 2011, with 51. 58% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 395 New Jersey cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 246 have fewer than Upper Saddle River.