Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Hialeah, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Miami Opa Locka Airport, FL, 3 miles northeast of Hialeah at 10 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 77°F and 59°F. June is the wettest at 8.9 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 62.7 inches over 84 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 71% of the year's precipitation (44.5 of 62.7 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 86 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 100 days a year, almost all from March to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 62.7 inches is more than at 103 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (82%). Doral, 4 miles southwest, has its own station (Miami International Airport, FL): 67.5 inches a year, 4.8 more than here, and the same August average high, 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Virginia Key, FL, 14 miles southeast, averaged 89°F in August and 73°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 14 miles from Hialeah, 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 242 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Hialeah: 135 thunderstorm wind reports, 52 floods, 29 lightning strikes, 20 flash floods and 6 heavy rain events. They killed 3 people and injured 12, and the NWS estimated $5.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on May 15, 2006. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 224 have had fewer than Hialeah.

Flood insurance policyholders in Hialeah's 6 ZIP codes have filed 5,001 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $44.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 1999: 1,447 claims (29% of all) and $10.5 million, then Flooding in 2000 with 1,358 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 277. 78% 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, 322 have fewer than Hialeah.