Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Middleburg, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Jacksonville NAS, FL, 17 miles northeast of Middleburg at 20 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 76°F; January is the coolest, at 66°F and 47°F. June is the wettest at 7.3 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.0 inches; the year adds up to 47.7 inches over 76 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 66% of the year's precipitation (31.3 of 47.7 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 87 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal October there has highs of 82°F and 3.6 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 97 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 4 nights a year. That 47.7 inches is more than at 8 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (6%). Lawtey, 13 miles west, has its own station (Starke, FL): 53.3 inches a year, 5.6 more than here, and the same July average high, 92°F.

Sea level at the Mayport tide gauge, 35 miles from Middleburg, has risen 1.15 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1928 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.5 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 65 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 160 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Middleburg: 99 thunderstorm wind reports, 42 heavy rain events, 11 floods, 7 lightning strikes and 1 flash flood. They killed 1 person and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $240,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 74 mph, on May 17, 2016.

Flood insurance policyholders in Middleburg's ZIP code 32068 have filed 816 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $39.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irma in 2017: 297 claims (36% of all) and $30.2 million, then Tropical Storm Debby in 2012 with 115 and Flooding in 1992 with 75. 80% 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, 227 have fewer than Middleburg.