Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Waldport, OR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Yachats, OR, 7 miles south of Waldport at 50 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 65°F and low of 52°F; December is the coolest, at 52°F and 41°F. December is the wettest at 13.2 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.9 inches; the year adds up to 78.4 inches over 123 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs of 90°F are rare: fewer than one day a year on average. Lows fall below freezing on about 7 nights a year. Snowfall averages 0.9 inches a year, most of it in February. That 78.4 inches is more than at 68 of the 77 Oregon stations used on this site (88%). South Beach, 10 miles north, has its own station (Newport, OR): 67.2 inches a year, 11.2 less than here, and an August average high of 64°F against 65°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Beach, OR, 14 miles north, averaged 55°F in August and 49°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the South Beach tide gauge, 14 miles from Waldport, has risen 0.69 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1967 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 6.9 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 31 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 6 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Waldport: 3 floods, 2 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 heavy rain event. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $5,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 71 mph, on November 20, 2012.

Flood insurance policyholders in Waldport's ZIP code 97394 have filed 60 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1981, and were paid $386,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1996: 10 claims (17% of all) and $47,000. The year with the most claims was 2012, with 13. 17% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 77 Oregon cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 57 have fewer than Waldport.