Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Las Piedras, PR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Juncos 1 SE, PR RQ, 4 miles northwest of Las Piedras at 213 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 72°F; January is the coolest, at 82°F and 65°F. September is the wettest at 8.7 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 67.5 inches over 113 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 64% of the year's precipitation (43.4 of 67.5 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 66 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 8.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 104 days a year, almost all from March to November. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 67.5 inches is more than at 15 of the 21 Puerto Rico stations used on this site (71%). Punta Santiago, 8 miles east, has its own station (Roosevelt Roads, PR RQ): 50.9 inches a year, 16.6 less than here, and the same August average high, 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station San Juan, La Puntilla, San Juan Bay, PR, 25 miles northwest, averaged 86°F in September and 80°F in February over 2021–2025. Sea level at the San Juan tide gauge, 25 miles from Las Piedras, has risen 0.85 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1962 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 45 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 363 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Las Piedras: 229 flash floods, 94 floods, 32 heavy rain events, 7 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 lightning strike. They killed 8 people and injured 5, and the NWS estimated $2.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 44 mph, on June 2, 2024. October has had the most flash floods, 57 of 229. Of the 86 Puerto Rico cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 74 have had fewer than Las Piedras.

Flood insurance policyholders in Las Piedras's ZIP code 00771 have filed 18 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $95,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 78% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 72 Puerto Rico cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 10 have fewer than Las Piedras.