Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Aguada, PR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Coloso, PR RQ, 2 miles northeast of Aguada at 40 feet. September is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 84°F and 66°F. August is the wettest at 10.5 inches of precipitation on average and December the driest at 2.4 inches; the year adds up to 77.6 inches over 121 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 66% of the year's precipitation (51.6 of 77.6 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 52 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (25); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 9.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 108 days a year, almost all from February to December. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 77.6 inches is more than at 17 of the 21 Puerto Rico stations used on this site (81%). San Antonio, 11 miles northeast, has its own station (Isabela Substn, PR RQ): 64.0 inches a year, 13.6 less than here, and a September average high of 87°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Mayaguez, PR, 10 miles south, averaged 87°F in September and 81°F in February over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Magueyes Island tide gauge, 29 miles from Aguada, has risen 0.81 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1955 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 41 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 170 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Aguada: 77 floods, 39 thunderstorm wind reports, 35 flash floods, 15 heavy rain events and 4 lightning strikes. They killed 8 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $1.51 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 58 mph, on June 22, 2015. May has had the most flash floods, 9 of 35. Of the 86 Puerto Rico cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 6 have had fewer than Aguada.

Flood insurance policyholders in Aguada's ZIP code 00602 have filed 38 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1983, and were paid $470,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Maria in 2017: 10 claims (26% of all) and $267,000. 61% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 72 Puerto Rico cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 21 have fewer than Aguada.