Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Alva, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fort Myers SW Fl Regional Airport, FL, 15 miles southwest of Alva at 31 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 75°F and 54°F. June is the wettest at 10.3 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 1.5 inches; the year adds up to 53.5 inches over 74 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 77% of the year's precipitation (41.2 of 53.5 inches); the other six months are drier. Highs reach 90°F on about 119 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 53.5 inches is more than at 55 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (44%). Labelle, 12 miles east, has its own station (Ortona Lock 2, FL): 57.0 inches a year, 3.5 more than here, and an August average high of 92°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Fort Myers, FL, 16 miles west, averaged 88°F in July and August and 67°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Fort Myers tide gauge, 16 miles from Alva, has risen 1.43 ± 0.08 inches per decade from 1965 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 14.3 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 86 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 18 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Alva: 11 thunderstorm wind reports, 3 heavy rain events, 2 floods, 1 flash flood and 1 lightning strike. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $540,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on January 15, 2016.

Flood insurance policyholders in Alva's ZIP code 33920 have filed 204 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $12.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ian in 2022: 102 claims (50% of all) and $8.8 million, then Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 48 and Hurricane Milton in 2024 with 17. 93% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 340 Florida cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 144 have fewer than Alva.