Pacific County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Pacific County: 0.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Claims by ZIP code

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

River crests

River gauges

1. Crests are the highest and the recent crests the National Weather Service lists for each river gauge in the county that has a flood stage, not every flood. Flood categories use each gauge's current flood stages; crests from before levees, dams or channel changes may not be comparable. Crests measured on an old datum are left out of the rankings.

NOAA National Water Prediction Service gauge records, retrieved October 30, 2026.

High tide flooding

1. High tide flooding days are days on which a NOAA tide gauge recorded water at or above NOAA's minor flood threshold, set from the gauge's tide range, counted by meteorological year (May to April). These are the counts in NOAA's annual high tide flooding reports; they are not National Weather Service flood stages. Years with less than 80 percent of data are left out.

NOAA CO-OPS high tide flooding counts, through April 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

Every earthquake of magnitude 4 or more within 50 miles

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the county boundary (or inside the county).
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Tsunamis

1. Places where NOAA's Global Historical Tsunami Database records a tsunami's water arriving, with the greatest height it reached above sea level at the time. Only tsunamis NOAA rates probable or definite are counted. Heights from eyewitness accounts and tide gauges are mixed, and older events are less completely recorded.

NOAA NCEI/WDS Global Historical Tsunami Database, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Volcanoes within 100 miles

1. U.S. volcanoes within 100 miles, from the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. The threat category is the USGS 2018 National Volcanic Threat Assessment, which ranks volcanoes by how hazardous their past eruptions were and how many people and how much infrastructure lie near them. It is not a forecast of eruption.

USGS Volcano Hazards Program, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Mapped landslides

Mapped by WA WGS (1,892), NASA (2), USGS Conterminous (1).

1. Landslides mapped in the USGS compilation of landslide inventories across the United States (version 3.0, 2025), rated probable or better. The compilation joins inventories made by federal and state agencies for different purposes and areas, so the number mapped in a county reflects how closely it has been surveyed as much as how often its slopes fail. An area with few records may simply not have been mapped. Deaths are as recorded in the inventories; a slide listed in two inventories is counted once.

USGS Landslide Inventories across the United States, version 3.0, retrieved October 27, 2026.

Costliest events since 1996

1. Dec 3, 2007Flood$10.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The Willapa River flooded near Willapa, reaching major flood levels. Downtown Raymond had a depth of 2 feet of flood water due to a combination of coastal flooding and flooding of the Willapa. Residents in the Willapa valley stated they had never seen the Willapa river as high as it was. Also, minor flooding of the Naselle river sent some water over Hwy. 401. NOTE: Damage estimates are for the entire Pacific county.

2. Jan 6, 2022Flood$990,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The gauge on the Willapa River near Willapa rose above flood stage of 21.0 feet at 1620PST, crested at 23.3 feet on the 7th at 0345PST (major flood stage is 24.0 feet), then dropped below flood stage on the 7th at 1750PST. As a result, 33 homes have significant damage (combined river and coastal flooding.) Two people were sheltered. Also landslides preventing road entries into the county including five slides on SR 105.

3. Feb 24, 2025High Wind, South Washington Coast$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The mesonet station 82sw1 Cape Disappointment: Peak gust 85 mph 02/24 2200 PST, near or above 58 mph 1900 02/24 to 0400 02/25. In addition, the mesonet station ODT 76 Megler Bridge; peak gust 76 mph 02/25 0106 PST, near or above 58mph 02/24 1300 to 02/25 0400. Also, the Holy Cross Radio communications tower which provides the region with its primary cell coverage broke in half from wind between midnight and 1 am. The tower is located on atop a hill outside of Raymond above the rock quarry. This affected several thousand cell phone users.

4. Oct 25, 2025High Wind, South Washington Coast$60,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A peak gust of 59 mph was measured at the Toke Point mesonet station at 1930 PST, and this station was at or near warning criteria from 1700 PST to 2000 PST. Additional a 60mph peak gust was measured at the Astoria-Megler Bridge mesonet station at 1743 PST. This station was at or near warning criteria 1300 to 1930 PST. It's worth noting the Pacific County Emergency Manager estimated around $60,000 dollars worth of damage was produced from this storm.

5. Nov 6, 2025Coastal Flood, South Washington Coast$10,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A video posted on social media showed water across the road in Raymond Washington near the intersection of Willapa Pl Way and Ocean Ave at 1315 on Thursday November 6th. It appears a car was stuck in the water and was in the process of getting towed/rescued.

6. Sep 12, 1997Funnel Cloud$2,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A funnel cloud moved across Oysterville but did not touch down. However, it damaged a mobile home as it passed overhead.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

101°FJun 27, 2021

All-time low

6°F2 times, most recently Dec 21, 1990

Warmest night

63°F3 times, most recently Aug 7, 2023

Coldest day

19°FFeb 3, 1989

Wettest day

5.56 inNov 25, 1998

Snowiest day

10.8 inJan 12, 1971

Hottest year

2016mean 54.2°F

Coldest year

1955mean 48.5°F

Wettest year

199692.70 in

Driest year

198541.58 in

Station Astoria Airport (port Of) (USW00094224), 11 ft elevation, 25.4 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1953 to October 26, 2026; 99.6% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

Neighbouring counties

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USW00094224.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Tide gauges NOAA CO-OPS high tide flooding counts, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Tsunamis NOAA NCEI/WDS Global Historical Tsunami Database.
• Volcanoes USGS Volcano Hazards Program, U.S. volcanoes and 2018 threat assessment.
• Landslides USGS Landslide Inventories across the United States, version 3.0 (2025).
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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