Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Miami Gardens, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Miami Opa Locka Airport, FL, 3 miles south of Miami Gardens at 10 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 77°F and 59°F. June is the wettest at 8.9 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 62.7 inches over 84 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 71% of the year's precipitation (44.5 of 62.7 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 85 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 100 days a year, almost all from March to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 62.7 inches is more than at 103 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (82%). Miramar, 3 miles north, has its own station (Hollywood North Perry Airport, FL): 62.1 inches a year, 0.6 less than here, and an August average high of 92°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 13 miles northeast, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 16 miles from Miami Gardens, has risen 1.26 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 76 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 287 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Miami Gardens: 164 thunderstorm wind reports, 55 floods, 34 lightning strikes, 26 flash floods and 8 heavy rain events. They killed 6 people and injured 20, and the NWS estimated $36.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 25, 1997. June has had the most flash floods, 7 of 26. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 246 have had fewer than Miami Gardens.

Flood insurance policyholders in Miami Gardens's 2 ZIP codes have filed 1,645 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $5.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 1999: 373 claims (23% of all) and $1.1 million, then Flooding in 2000 with 275 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 145. 73% 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, 271 have fewer than Miami Gardens.