Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Woodland, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Woodland 1 WNW, CA, in Woodland at 67 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 95°F and low of 58°F; January is the coolest, at 56°F and 38°F. January is the wettest at 4.5 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 20.5 inches over 37 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 95 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 9 nights a year. That 20.5 inches is more than at 144 of the 226 California stations used on this site (64%). Davis, 10 miles south, has its own station (Davis 2 WSW Exp Farm, CA): 19.2 inches a year, 1.3 less than here, and a July average high of 93°F against 95°F.

Sea level at the Port Chicago tide gauge, 46 miles from Woodland, has risen 0.77 ± 0.23 inches per decade from 1976 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 36 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 25 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Woodland: 19 floods, 4 thunderstorm wind reports and 2 heavy rain events. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $52,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on April 8, 2005.

Flood insurance policyholders in Woodland's 2 ZIP codes have filed 31 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1986, and were paid $333,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998: 12 claims (39% of all) and $165,000. 55% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 415 California cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 159 have fewer than Woodland.