Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Boqueron, PR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Lajas Substn, PR RQ, 7 miles east of Boqueron at 90 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 70°F; February is the coolest, at 87°F and 62°F. October is the wettest at 6.3 inches of precipitation on average and December the driest at 2.0 inches; the year adds up to 44.9 inches over 74 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 63% of the year's precipitation (28.2 of 44.9 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 52 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (25); a normal September there has highs of 91°F and 5.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 200 days a year. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 44.9 inches is more than at 3 of the 21 Puerto Rico stations used on this site (14%). Hormigueros, 10 miles north, has its own station (Mayaguez City, PR RQ): 51.3 inches a year, 6.4 more than here, and a July average high of 90°F against 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Magueyes Island, PR, 8 miles east, averaged 88°F in September and 81°F in February over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Magueyes Island tide gauge, 8 miles from Boqueron, has risen 0.81 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1955 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 41 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 111 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Boqueron: 55 floods, 25 flash floods, 16 thunderstorm wind reports, 12 heavy rain events and 3 lightning strikes. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $7.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 52 mph, on July 17, 2010. October has had the most flash floods, 8 of 25. Of the 86 Puerto Rico cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 2 have had fewer than Boqueron.

Flood insurance policyholders in Boqueron's ZIP code 00622 have filed 20 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $92,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 40% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 72 Puerto Rico cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 12 have fewer than Boqueron.