Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Loxahatchee, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 11 miles northeast of Loxahatchee at 20 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 75°F; January is the coolest, at 74°F and 56°F. June is the wettest at 9.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.6 inches; the year adds up to 66.2 inches over 93 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 65% of the year's precipitation (43.0 of 66.2 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 82 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (25); a normal October there has highs of 85°F and 6.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 55 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 1 nights a year. That 66.2 inches is more than at 114 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (91%). Royal Palm Beach, 5 miles southeast, has its own station (West Palm Beach International Airport, FL): 61.8 inches a year, 4.4 less than here, and an August average high of 90°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Lake Worth Pier, Atlantic Ocean, FL, 19 miles southeast, averaged 86°F in August and 75°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Lake Worth Pier tide gauge, 19 miles from Loxahatchee, has risen 1.62 ± 0.10 inches per decade from 1970 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 16.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 99 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 53 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Loxahatchee: 43 thunderstorm wind reports, 6 lightning strikes, 2 flash floods and 2 floods. They killed 1 person and injured 7, and the NWS estimated $343,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 75 mph, on April 25, 1999.

Flood insurance policyholders in Loxahatchee's ZIP code 33470 have filed 107 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $540,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Isaac in 2012: 50 claims (47% of all) and $379,000, then Hurricane Frances in 2004 with 12 and Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 with 10. 87% 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, 111 have fewer than Loxahatchee.