Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Margate, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, FL, 5 miles southeast of Margate at 14 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 76°F and 59°F. September is the wettest at 8.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.0 inches; the year adds up to 56.6 inches over 78 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 67% of the year's precipitation (38.2 of 56.6 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 87 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (28); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 5.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 93 days a year, almost all from March to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 56.6 inches is more than at 83 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (66%). Coconut Creek, 3 miles northeast, has its own station (Pompano Beach Airpark, FL): 55.9 inches a year, 0.7 less than here, and the same August average high, 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 13 miles southeast, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Lake Worth Pier tide gauge, 27 miles from Margate, 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 227 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Margate: 126 thunderstorm wind reports, 39 lightning strikes, 37 floods, 15 flash floods and 10 heavy rain events. They killed 6 people and injured 26, and the NWS estimated $11.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on March 17, 2003. October has had the most flash floods, 7 of 15. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 203 have had fewer than Margate.

Flood insurance policyholders in Margate's ZIP code 33063 have filed 875 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $1.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Flooding in 1979: 220 claims (25% of all) and $150,000, then Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 152 and Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 115. The year with the most claims was 2005, with 173. 74% 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, 234 have fewer than Margate.