Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Homestead, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Perrine 4W, FL, 6 miles north of Homestead at 10 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 55°F. August is the wettest at 10.2 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 2.0 inches; the year adds up to 66.6 inches over 90 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 73% of the year's precipitation (48.7 of 66.6 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 78 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 80 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 66.6 inches is more than at 115 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (92%). Florida City, 7 miles southwest, has its own station (Homestead Gen Aviation Airport, FL): 59.9 inches a year, 6.7 less than here, and an August average high of 92°F against 90°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Virginia Key, FL, 24 miles northeast, 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, 24 miles from Homestead, 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 71 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Homestead: 49 thunderstorm wind reports, 7 floods, 6 flash floods, 6 lightning strikes and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 1 person and injured 7, and the NWS estimated $318,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 87 mph, on August 21, 2024. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 157 have had fewer than Homestead.

Flood insurance policyholders in Homestead's 5 ZIP codes have filed 3,200 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $23.9 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Katrina in 2005: 1,060 claims (33% of all) and $13.4 million, then Hurricane Andrew in 1992 with 659 and Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 385. 86% 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, 307 have fewer than Homestead.