Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Yachats, OR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Yachats, OR, 2 miles west of Yachats at 50 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 65°F and low of 52°F; December is the coolest, at 52°F and 41°F. December is the wettest at 13.2 inches of precipitation on average and July and August the driest at 0.9 inches; the year adds up to 78.4 inches over 123 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs of 90°F are rare: fewer than one day a year on average. Lows fall below freezing on about 7 nights a year. Snowfall averages 0.9 inches a year, most of it in February. That 78.4 inches is more than at 68 of the 77 Oregon stations used on this site (88%). South Beach, 17 miles north, has its own station (Newport, OR): 67.2 inches a year, 11.2 less than here, and an August average high of 64°F against 65°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Beach, OR, 21 miles north, averaged 55°F in August and 49°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the South Beach tide gauge, 21 miles from Yachats, has risen 0.69 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1967 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 6.9 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 31 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Yachats's ZIP code 97498 have filed 16 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1997, and were paid $95,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 6% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 77 Oregon cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 22 have fewer than Yachats.