Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Westport, CT

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Stamford 5 N, CT, 10 miles west of Westport at 190 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 22°F. September is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 51.5 inches over 81 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 51% of the year's precipitation (26.5 of 51.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 49 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 5.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 18 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 119 nights a year. Snowfall averages 34.0 inches a year, most of it in February. That 51.5 inches is more than at 19 of the 27 Connecticut stations used on this site (70%). Southport, 3 miles east, has its own station (Bridgeport Sikorsky Mem Airport, CT): 44.2 inches a year, 7.3 less than here, and a July average high of 83°F against 85°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Bridgeport, CT, 9 miles east, averaged 76°F in August and 39°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Bridgeport tide gauge, 9 miles from Westport, has risen 1.35 ± 0.08 inches per decade from 1964 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 13.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 81 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 198 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Westport: 126 thunderstorm wind reports, 55 flash floods, 12 lightning strikes, 3 floods and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 7 people and injured 32, and the NWS estimated $3.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 100 mph, on June 24, 2010. September has had the most flash floods, 17 of 55. Of the 186 Connecticut cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 159 have had fewer than Westport.

Flood insurance policyholders in Westport's ZIP code 06880 have filed 1,894 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $43.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 469 claims (25% of all) and $26.7 million, then December Storm - Nor'easter in 1992 with 306 and Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 238. 72% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 128 Connecticut cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 124 have fewer than Westport.