Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Woodland Hills, CA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Woodland Hills Pierce College, CA, 2 miles east of Woodland Hills at 790 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 97°F and low of 61°F; December is the coolest, at 69°F and 42°F. February is the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 16.5 inches over 22 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 115 days a year, almost all from March to November. Lows fall below freezing on about 11 nights a year. That 16.5 inches is more than at 117 of the 226 California stations used on this site (52%). Encino, 6 miles east, has its own station (Van Nuys Airport, CA): 13.6 inches a year, 2.9 less than here, and an August average high of 93°F against 97°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Santa Monica, CA, 13 miles southeast, averaged 69°F in August and 58°F in January and March over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Santa Monica tide gauge, 13 miles from Woodland Hills, has risen 0.60 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1933 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 6.0 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 28 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 26 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Woodland Hills: 17 flash floods, 8 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 flood. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $2,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on February 16, 2026. February has had the most flash floods, 9 of 17. Of the 550 California cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 418 have had fewer than Woodland Hills.

Flood insurance policyholders in Woodland Hills's 2 ZIP codes have filed 242 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $1.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1980: 77 claims (32% of all) and $329,000, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 73. The year with the most claims was 1998, with 76. 64% 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, 376 have fewer than Woodland Hills.