Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bokeelia, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fort Myers Page Field Airport, FL, 18 miles east of Bokeelia at 15 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 75°F and 54°F. August is the wettest at 10.4 inches of precipitation on average and February and November the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 57.5 inches over 77 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 75% of the year's precipitation (43.4 of 57.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 75 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (24); a normal September there has highs of 90°F and 9.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 120 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 57.5 inches is more than at 88 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (70%). Placida, 16 miles northwest, has its own station (Punta Gorda 4 ESE, FL): 54.1 inches a year, 3.4 less than here, and an August average high of 94°F against 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Fort Myers, FL, 17 miles east, 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, 17 miles from Bokeelia, 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 Bokeelia: 14 thunderstorm wind reports, 3 floods and 1 lightning strike. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $461,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 64 mph, on June 9, 2008.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bokeelia's ZIP code 33922 have filed 639 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $16.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ian in 2022: 206 claims (32% of all) and $3.0 million, then Hurricane Milton in 2024 with 162 and Hurricane Helene in 2024 with 136. The year with the most claims was 2024, with 300. 97% 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, 215 have fewer than Bokeelia.