Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Boca Raton, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Pompano Beach Airpark, FL, 9 miles south of Boca Raton at 21 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 78°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 60°F. June is the wettest at 8.1 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.9 inches; the year adds up to 55.9 inches over 78 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 67% of the year's precipitation (37.7 of 55.9 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 93 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (31); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 6.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 59 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 55.9 inches is more than at 78 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (62%). Delray Beach, 7 miles north, has its own station (Loxahatchee Nwr, FL): 63.7 inches a year, 7.8 more than here, and an August average high of 90°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Lake Worth Pier, Atlantic Ocean, FL, 18 miles northeast, averaged 86°F in August and 75°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Lake Worth Pier tide gauge, 18 miles from Boca Raton, has risen 1.62 ± 0.10 inches per decade from 1970 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 16.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 99 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 166 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Boca Raton: 95 thunderstorm wind reports, 25 lightning strikes, 23 floods, 20 flash floods and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 7 people and injured 17, and the NWS estimated $9.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on March 17, 2003. October has had the most flash floods, 7 of 20. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 224 have had fewer than Boca Raton.

Flood insurance policyholders in Boca Raton's 9 ZIP codes have filed 2,153 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $17.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Wilma in 2005: 301 claims (14% of all) and $454,000, then Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 227 and Flooding in 1979 with 224. 56% 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, 282 have fewer than Boca Raton.