Will a hurricane hit california?

A California hurricane is a tropical cyclone that affects the state of California. Usually, only the remnants of tropical cyclones affect California. Since 1900, only two tropical storms have hit California, one by direct landfall from offshore, another after making landfall in Mexico. read more

History shows a hurricane landfall is possible, but if it happened, it would be in Southern California. On Oct. 2, 1858, a hurricane came ashore and caused widespread damage in San Diego. That unnamed hurricane was the last, and only, example on record of a hurricane coming ashore on the West Coast. read more

The Golden State has never seen a tropical storm as equally fierce, and in fact a full-blown hurricane has never reached landfall in California, according to Mike Anderson, the California State climatologist with the Department of Water Resources. read more

That unnamed hurricane was the last, and only, example on record of a hurricane coming ashore on the West Coast. In 1939, a tropical storm made landfall along the California coast at Long Beach, according to Weather Underground. read more