Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Wood Ridge, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Teterboro Airport, NJ, 1 mile east of Wood Ridge at 9 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 69°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 26°F. July is the wettest at 4.5 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 46.4 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (24.2 of 46.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 44 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 29 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 89 nights a year. That 46.4 inches is more than at 15 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (29%). Nutley, 4 miles southwest, has its own station (Harrison, NJ): 50.7 inches a year, 4.3 more than here, and the same July average high, 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station The Battery, NY, 11 miles south, averaged 74°F in August and 39°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the The Battery tide gauge, 11 miles from Wood Ridge, has risen 1.16 ± 0.02 inches per decade from 1856 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 66 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 992 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Wood Ridge: 437 flash floods, 412 thunderstorm wind reports, 106 floods, 35 lightning strikes and 2 heavy rain events. They killed 14 people and injured 42, and the NWS estimated $259.9 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, 138 of 437. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 453 have had fewer than Wood Ridge.

Flood insurance policyholders in Wood Ridge's ZIP code 07075 have filed 53 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $644,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 17 claims (32% of all) and $240,000, then Hurricane Ida in 2021 with 16. The year with the most claims was 2021, with 17. 96% 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, 153 have fewer than Wood Ridge.