NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Yuba City, CA
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Yuba City, California since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 16 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 16
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Yuba City
The highest rating among the 16 tornadoes within 25 miles is F1 or EF1, reached 6 times; the most recent, on October 22, 2012, came within 2 miles. Of the 16, 4 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 12 have come since 2000. The most recent tornado was on February 2, 2019. Yuba City has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 55% of the 705 California cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 4 times since 2016, with stones up to 1.25 inches (half dollar size). Yuba City has more hail reports within 10 miles than 55% of the 705 California cities.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Yuba City
By decade
- 2010s9
- 2000s3
- 1990s3
- 1970s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF1 | 7 mi | 0.29 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF1 | 2 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 8, 2005 | F1 | 24 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 7, 1993 | F1 | 22 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 17, 1992 | F1 | 20 mi | 5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jun 28, 1970 | F1 | 18 mi | 2.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 2, 2019 | EF0 | 4 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Feb 2, 2019 | EF0 | 25 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 21, 2018 | EF0 | 9 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jan 9, 2017 | EF0 | 25 mi | 0.18 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 26, 2014 | EF0 | 22 mi | 0.63 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 22, 2012 | EF0 | 13 mi | 0.38 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 16, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Yuba City
The Storm Prediction Center has 4 hail reports within 10 miles of Yuba City since 2016, made on 2 separate days. All were 1 inch across or larger, and none reached 2 inches. The largest, 1.25 inches (half dollar size), fell on May 5, 2016. The most recent report is from January 23, 2017.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Yuba City
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Marysville Yuba Co Airport, CA, 4 miles east of Yuba City at 62 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 96°F and low of 61°F; December is the coolest, at 55°F and 38°F. January is the wettest at 3.8 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.0 inches; the year adds up to 20.1 inches over 38 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 99 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 23 nights a year. That 20.1 inches is more than at 141 of the 226 California stations used on this site (62%). Gridley, 17 miles north, has its own station (Oroville Municipal Airport, CA): 25.6 inches a year, 5.5 more than here, and the same July average high, 96°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 56 | 38 | 3.8 | 6 |
| Feb | 60 | 41 | 3.7 | 6 |
| Mar | 66 | 43 | 2.9 | 6 |
| Apr | 73 | 46 | 1.4 | 3 |
| May | 82 | 52 | 0.9 | 2 |
| Jun | 90 | 58 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Jul | 96 | 61 | 0.0 | 0 |
| Aug | 95 | 60 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Sep | 90 | 56 | 0.1 | 0 |
| Oct | 79 | 49 | 1.0 | 2 |
| Nov | 64 | 41 | 2.2 | 4 |
| Dec | 55 | 38 | 3.7 | 7 |
| Year | 75 | 49 | 20.1 | 38 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Marysville Yuba Co Airport, CA (62 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Yuba City
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 14 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Yuba City: 10 floods, 3 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 lightning strike. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $553.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 58 mph, on May 9, 2005.
November 27, 2009: lightning strike 4 miles from the centre of Yuba City — 1 injured, $2,000 damage.
February 12, 2017: flood 8 miles from the centre of Yuba City — $549.0 million damage.
September 16, 2019: thunderstorm wind 6 miles from the centre of Yuba City — $2.5 million damage.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Yuba City's 2 ZIP codes have filed 103 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $895,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1995: 26 claims (25% of all) and $320,000, then Pineapple Express - Southern in 1998 with 20. The year with the most claims was 2017, with 28. 46% 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, 320 have fewer than Yuba City.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Flooding1995 | 26 | $320,000 |
| Pineapple Express - Southern1998 | 20 | $52,000 |
Sutter County, which includes Yuba City, has been named in 20 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1964, 15 of them major disasters (by incident: 7 severe storms, 6 floods, 2 biological emergencies, 1 coastal storm). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storms, Tornadoes, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on April 13, 2024. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Sutter County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Moderate for heat waves; Relatively Low for inland flooding and lightning; Very Low for tornadoes, hail and strong wind. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $44.8 million a year, the 46th highest of 58 California counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $12.1 million (27%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.