Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Fleming Island, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Jacksonville NAS, FL, 5 miles north of Fleming Island at 20 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 66°F and 47°F. June is the wettest at 7.3 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.0 inches; the year adds up to 47.7 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 66% of the year's precipitation (31.3 of 47.7 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 92 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal October there has highs of 82°F and 3.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 97 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 4 nights a year. That 47.7 inches is more than at 8 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (6%). Ponte Vedra Beach, 19 miles east, has its own station (Jacksonville Beach, FL): 52.4 inches a year, 4.7 more than here, and a July average high of 89°F against 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Jacksonville University, FL, 14 miles north, averaged 86°F in August and 58°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Mayport tide gauge, 23 miles from Fleming Island, has risen 1.15 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1928 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 65 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 511 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Fleming Island: 304 thunderstorm wind reports, 118 heavy rain events, 44 lightning strikes, 30 floods and 15 flash floods. They killed 2 people and injured 10, and the NWS estimated $1.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on February 2, 1996. June has had the most flash floods, 8 of 15. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 203 have had fewer than Fleming Island.

Flood insurance policyholders in Fleming Island's ZIP code 32003 have filed 334 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $16.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irma in 2017: 205 claims (61% of all) and $14.9 million, then Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 with 31 and Hurricane Matthew in 2016 with 12. 87% 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, 177 have fewer than Fleming Island.