Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Woodbridge, VA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Quantico Mcas, VA, 10 miles south of Woodbridge at 10 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 71°F; January is the coolest, at 45°F and 28°F. July is the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.4 inches; the year adds up to 40.9 inches over 70 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (22.1 of 40.9 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 33 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (11); a normal October there has highs of 69°F and 3.3 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 76 nights a year. Snowfall averages 12.4 inches a year, most of it in February. That 40.9 inches is more than at 10 of the 109 Virginia stations used on this site (9%). Lorton, 7 miles northeast, has its own station (Oxon Hill, MD): 47.1 inches a year, 6.2 more than here, and the same July average high, 88°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Washington, DC, 22 miles northeast, averaged 84°F in July and 39°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July to August. Sea level at the Washington tide gauge, 22 miles from Woodbridge, has risen 1.40 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1924 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 14.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 84 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 382 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Woodbridge: 287 thunderstorm wind reports, 62 floods, 31 flash floods and 2 lightning strikes. They killed 4 people and injured 8, and the NWS estimated $4.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 90 mph, on May 13, 2000. June has had the most flash floods, 12 of 31. Of the 364 Virginia cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 256 have had fewer than Woodbridge.

Flood insurance policyholders in Woodbridge's 3 ZIP codes have filed 180 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $3.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Isabel in 2003: 18 claims (10% of all) and $1.4 million, then Hurricane Fran in 1996 with 10. The year with the most claims was 2011, with 29. 23% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 183 Virginia cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 152 have fewer than Woodbridge.