Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Holmes Beach, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Sarasota Bradenton Airport, FL, 12 miles southeast of Holmes Beach at 28 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 73°F and 52°F. August is the wettest at 9.1 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 49.2 inches over 66 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 70% of the year's precipitation (34.2 of 49.2 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 81 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (31); a normal September there has highs of 90°F and 6.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 85 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 1 nights a year. That 49.2 inches is more than at 14 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (11%). Palmetto, 10 miles east, has its own station (Bradenton 5 ESE, FL): 56.3 inches a year, 7.1 more than here, and the same August average high, 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Manatee, FL, 13 miles northeast, averaged 89°F in July and 62°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the Port Manatee tide gauge, 13 miles from Holmes Beach, has risen 2.15 ± 0.13 inches per decade from 1976 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 21.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 123 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 71 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Holmes Beach: 51 thunderstorm wind reports, 8 floods, 6 heavy rain events, 5 lightning strikes and 1 flash flood. They killed 2 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $3.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 72 mph, on December 21, 2021.

Flood insurance policyholders in Holmes Beach's ZIP code 34217 have filed 3,182 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $226.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Helene in 2024: 2,003 claims (63% of all) and $216.3 million, then Hurricane Elena in 1985 with 243 and The 'No-Name Storm' in 1982 with 169. 94% 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, 305 have fewer than Holmes Beach.