Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Miramar, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Hollywood North Perry Airport, FL, 2 miles east of Miramar at 9 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 92°F and low of 78°F; January is the coolest, at 77°F and 59°F. June is the wettest at 8.7 inches of precipitation on average and December the driest at 2.2 inches; the year adds up to 62.1 inches over 88 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 70% of the year's precipitation (43.3 of 62.1 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 85 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (29); a normal October there has highs of 87°F and 7.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 105 days a year, almost all from March to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 62.1 inches is more than at 101 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (81%). Miami Gardens, 3 miles south, has its own station (Miami Opa Locka Airport, FL): 62.7 inches a year, 0.6 more than here, and an August average high of 91°F against 92°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 12 miles northeast, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 19 miles from Miramar, 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 317 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Miramar: 199 thunderstorm wind reports, 48 floods, 40 lightning strikes, 22 flash floods and 8 heavy rain events. They killed 6 people and injured 19, and the NWS estimated $34.4 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 22. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 233 have had fewer than Miramar.

Flood insurance policyholders in Miramar's 3 ZIP codes have filed 2,440 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $6.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 1999: 641 claims (26% of all) and $1.6 million, then Flooding in 2000 with 362 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 298. 69% 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, 291 have fewer than Miramar.