Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Aguirre, PR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Aguirre, PR RQ, 1 mile south of Aguirre at 25 feet. August 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. September is the wettest at 6.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 1.2 inches; the year adds up to 40.5 inches over 61 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 71% of the year's precipitation (28.9 of 40.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 54 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (24); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 6.9 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 139 days a year. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 40.5 inches is more than at 1 of the 21 Puerto Rico stations used on this site (5%). Guayama, 6 miles east, has its own station (Guayama 2E, PR RQ): 54.5 inches a year, 14.0 more than here, and an August average high of 90°F against 89°F.

Sea level at the San Juan tide gauge, 35 miles from Aguirre, has risen 0.85 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1962 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 45 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 79 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Aguirre: 36 flash floods, 29 floods, 7 thunderstorm wind reports, 6 heavy rain events and 1 lightning strike. They killed 4 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $750.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 49 mph, on June 2, 2024. October has had the most flash floods, 12 of 36. Of the 86 Puerto Rico cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 7 have had fewer than Aguirre.

Flood insurance policyholders in Aguirre's ZIP code 00704 have filed 117 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $517,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical/Subtropical System 93L in 2008: 39 claims (33% of all) and $195,000, then Tropical Storm Jeanne in 2004 with 17. 58% 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, 39 have fewer than Aguirre.