Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Cocoa, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Titusville, FL, 14 miles north of Cocoa at 16 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 74°F; January is the coolest, at 69°F and 50°F. June is the wettest at 7.9 inches of precipitation on average and December the driest at 2.4 inches; the year adds up to 55.5 inches over 83 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 68% of the year's precipitation (37.6 of 55.5 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 85 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (25); a normal October there has highs of 83°F and 5.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 77 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 2 nights a year. That 55.5 inches is more than at 73 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (58%). Merritt Island, 7 miles southeast, has its own station (Titusville 7 E, FL): 48.7 inches a year, 6.8 less than here, and a July average high of 89°F against 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Trident Pier, Port Canaveral, FL, 12 miles east, averaged 87°F in September and 69°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Port Canaveral tide gauge, 12 miles from Cocoa, has risen 2.52 ± 0.26 inches per decade from 1994 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 25.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 137 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 96 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Cocoa: 81 thunderstorm wind reports, 6 flash floods, 4 heavy rain events, 4 lightning strikes and 1 flood. They killed 2 people and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $6.5 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on October 21, 2002. October has had the most flash floods, 4 of 6. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 157 have had fewer than Cocoa.

Flood insurance policyholders in Cocoa's 3 ZIP codes have filed 433 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $7.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irma in 2017: 95 claims (22% of all) and $2.1 million, then Tropical Storm Fay in 2008 with 95 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 61. 77% 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, 194 have fewer than Cocoa.