Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Kingsland, GA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Woodbine, GA, 12 miles north of Kingsland at 16 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 71°F; January is the coolest, at 63°F and 38°F. August is the wettest at 7.8 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.3 inches; the year adds up to 54.5 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 61% of the year's precipitation (33.2 of 54.5 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 94 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal October there has highs of 79°F and 4.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 70 days a year, almost all from April to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 30 nights a year. That 54.5 inches is more than at 84 of the 108 Georgia stations used on this site (78%). Saint Marys, 7 miles east, has its own station (Brunswick 23 S, GA): 47.2 inches a year, 7.3 less than here, and a July average high of 89°F against 91°F.

Sea level at the Fernandina Beach tide gauge, 16 miles from Kingsland, has risen 0.91 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1897 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 9.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 53 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 192 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Kingsland: 151 thunderstorm wind reports, 26 heavy rain events, 8 lightning strikes, 6 floods and 1 flash flood. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $140,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 69 mph, on May 28, 1996.

Flood insurance policyholders in Kingsland's ZIP code 31548 have filed 125 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1992, and were paid $3.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irma in 2017: 56 claims (45% of all) and $2.5 million. 52% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 154 Georgia cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 125 have fewer than Kingsland.