Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Atlantic Beach, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mayport Pilot Stn, FL, 4 miles north of Atlantic Beach at 16 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 64°F and 47°F. June is the wettest at 6.6 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.3 inches; the year adds up to 48.6 inches over 73 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 65% of the year's precipitation (31.7 of 48.6 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 94 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal October there has highs of 80°F and 5.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 57 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 3 nights a year. That 48.6 inches is more than at 11 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (9%). Neptune Beach, 2 miles south, has its own station (Jacksonville Beach, FL): 52.4 inches a year, 3.8 more than here, and a July average high of 89°F against 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Mayport (Bar Pilots Dock), FL, 4 miles north, averaged 84°F in August and 59°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Mayport tide gauge, 4 miles from Atlantic Beach, has risen 1.15 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1928 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 65 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 322 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Atlantic Beach: 173 thunderstorm wind reports, 97 heavy rain events, 25 lightning strikes, 24 floods and 3 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 14, and the NWS estimated $1.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 1, 2013.

Flood insurance policyholders in Atlantic Beach's ZIP code 32233 have filed 253 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $2.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Matthew in 2016: 20 claims (8% of all) and $106,000, then Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 17 and Flooding in 1992 with 10. The year with the most claims was 2015, with 79. 30% 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, 165 have fewer than Atlantic Beach.