Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Dania Beach, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Airport, FL, 2 miles north of Dania Beach at 11 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 78°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 61°F. June is the wettest at 9.6 inches of precipitation on average and February and March the driest at 2.4 inches; the year adds up to 61.1 inches over 82 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 69% of the year's precipitation (42.0 of 61.1 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 87 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (28); a normal October there has highs of 85°F and 7.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 68 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 61.1 inches is more than at 96 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (77%). Hollywood, 2 miles southwest, has its own station (Hollywood, FL): 65.1 inches a year, 4.0 more than here, and the same August average high, 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 3 miles northeast, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 22 miles from Dania Beach, has risen 1.26 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 76 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 269 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Dania Beach: 153 thunderstorm wind reports, 51 floods, 33 lightning strikes, 20 flash floods and 12 heavy rain events. They killed 3 people and injured 27, and the NWS estimated $34.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 25, 1997. June has had the most flash floods, 6 of 20. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 224 have had fewer than Dania Beach.

Flood insurance policyholders in Dania Beach's ZIP code 33004 have filed 545 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $23.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from April Florida Flooding in 2023: 174 claims (32% of all) and $19.6 million, then Flooding in 2000 with 71 and Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 32. 70% 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, 209 have fewer than Dania Beach.