Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Yorktown Heights, NY

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Yorktown Hts 1W, NY, 2 miles south of Yorktown Heights at 670 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 83°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 36°F and 17°F. June is the wettest at 5.0 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 50.3 inches over 83 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (27.2 of 50.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 42 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (18); a normal September there has highs of 74°F and 4.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 10 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 116 nights a year. Snowfall averages 39.5 inches a year, most of it in February. That 50.3 inches is more than at 124 of the 137 New York stations used on this site (91%). Lake Peekskill, 6 miles northwest, has its own station (West Point, NY): 51.5 inches a year, 1.2 more than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 83°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 219 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Yorktown Heights: 183 thunderstorm wind reports, 27 flash floods, 6 floods, 2 heavy rain events and 1 lightning strike. They killed 2 people and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $93.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 87 mph, on July 9, 1997. July has had the most flash floods, 17 of 27. Of the 798 New York cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 429 have had fewer than Yorktown Heights.

Flood insurance policyholders in Yorktown Heights's ZIP code 10598 have filed 168 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $1.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1980: 16 claims (10% of all) and $48,000, then Hurricane Floyd in 1999 with 16 and Not a named storm in 1979 with 11. The year with the most claims was 1979, with 23. 42% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 549 New York cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 432 have fewer than Yorktown Heights.