Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Inglis, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Usher Twr, FL, 24 miles north of Inglis at 33 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 66°F and 44°F. August is the wettest at 9.9 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.2 inches; the year adds up to 57.2 inches over 78 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 65% of the year's precipitation (37.4 of 57.2 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 77 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (23); a normal September there has highs of 87°F and 5.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 82 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 15 nights a year. That 57.2 inches is more than at 86 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (69%). Crystal River, 12 miles south, has its own station (Inverness 3 SE, FL): 52.4 inches a year, 4.8 less than here, and an August average high of 90°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Cedar Key, FL, 22 miles west, averaged 88°F in July and 59°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the Cedar Key tide gauge, 22 miles from Inglis, has risen 0.94 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1914 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 9.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 55 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 20 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Inglis: 17 thunderstorm wind reports, 2 floods and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 0 people and injured 6, and the NWS estimated $10.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 100 mph, on April 20, 2020.

Flood insurance policyholders in Inglis's ZIP code 34449 have filed 130 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $4.9 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Helene in 2024: 40 claims (31% of all) and $2.7 million, then Blizzard of 1993 in 1993 with 21 and Hurricane Idalia in 2023 with 17. 85% 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, 124 have fewer than Inglis.