Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Hollywood, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Hollywood, FL, 2 miles east of Hollywood at 9 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 59°F. June is the wettest at 8.8 inches of precipitation on average and December the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 65.1 inches over 94 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 67% of the year's precipitation (43.6 of 65.1 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 89 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 85°F and 8.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 59 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 65.1 inches is more than at 112 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (90%). Dania Beach, 2 miles northeast, has its own station (Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Airport, FL): 61.1 inches a year, 4.0 less than here, and the same August average high, 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 5 miles northeast, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 20 miles from Hollywood, 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 283 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Hollywood: 167 thunderstorm wind reports, 52 floods, 33 lightning strikes, 24 flash floods and 7 heavy rain events. They killed 4 people and injured 23, 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, 7 of 24. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 238 have had fewer than Hollywood.

Flood insurance policyholders in Hollywood's 3 ZIP codes have filed 3,073 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $59.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from April Florida Flooding in 2023: 537 claims (17% of all) and $30.0 million, then Flooding in 2000 with 494 and Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 216. 61% 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, 304 have fewer than Hollywood.