Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Jacksonville Beach, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Jacksonville Beach, FL, in Jacksonville Beach at 10 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 65°F and 49°F. August is the wettest at 7.5 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 52.4 inches over 75 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 65% of the year's precipitation (34.0 of 52.4 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 93 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal October there has highs of 80°F and 5.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 36 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 4 nights a year. That 52.4 inches is more than at 41 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (33%). Atlantic Beach, 4 miles north, has its own station (Mayport Pilot Stn, FL): 48.6 inches a year, 3.8 less than here, and a July average high of 90°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Mayport (Bar Pilots Dock), FL, 8 miles north, averaged 84°F in August and 59°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Mayport tide gauge, 8 miles from Jacksonville Beach, has risen 1.15 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1928 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 65 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 317 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Jacksonville Beach: 164 thunderstorm wind reports, 103 heavy rain events, 24 lightning strikes, 23 floods and 3 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 14, and the NWS estimated $39.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 1, 2013.

Flood insurance policyholders in Jacksonville Beach's ZIP code 32250 have filed 733 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $18.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Matthew in 2016: 214 claims (29% of all) and $12.5 million, then Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 85 and Flooding in 1992 with 18. 56% 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, 218 have fewer than Jacksonville Beach.