Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bonita Springs, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fort Myers SW Fl Regional Airport, FL, 13 miles north of Bonita Springs 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. October has brought the most of the 80 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (24); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 3.1 inches of precipitation. 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%). Fort Myers Beach, 11 miles northwest, has its own station (Fort Myers Page Field Airport, FL): 57.5 inches a year, 4.0 more than here, and an August average high of 92°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Fort Myers, FL, 21 miles north, 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 Naples tide gauge, 15 miles from Bonita Springs, has risen 1.32 ± 0.08 inches per decade from 1965 to 2023, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 13.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 78 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 43 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bonita Springs: 21 thunderstorm wind reports, 14 lightning strikes, 6 floods, 1 flash flood and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 3 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $503.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on June 26, 2001.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bonita Springs's 2 ZIP codes have filed 3,995 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $336.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ian in 2022: 2,216 claims (55% of all) and $281.7 million, then Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 445 and Hurricane Milton in 2024 with 365. 92% 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, 313 have fewer than Bonita Springs.