Feb 8, 2017
Storms brought a range of significant weather impacts to northern interior California. The first storm was very wet and warm, the second not quite as wet but cooler with lower snow levels. Both storms brought strong, damaging winds. The heavy rain brought widespread flooding of small streams and rivers, with some flooding of main stem rivers. Wet conditions from previous storms brought saturated ground and elevated reservoirs, with flood control releases.|There was also mountain snow many feet d
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 682218). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Butte County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.