Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Orange Park, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Jacksonville NAS, FL, 8 miles northeast of Orange Park 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. 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, 21 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.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Jacksonville University, FL, 17 miles northeast, averaged 86°F in August and 58°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Mayport tide gauge, 26 miles from Orange Park, 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 493 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Orange Park: 309 thunderstorm wind reports, 112 heavy rain events, 33 lightning strikes, 28 floods and 11 flash floods. They killed 2 people and injured 6, and the NWS estimated $1.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on February 2, 1996. June has had the most flash floods, 6 of 11. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 186 have had fewer than Orange Park.

Flood insurance policyholders in Orange Park's 2 ZIP codes have filed 390 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $13.4 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irma in 2017: 181 claims (46% of all) and $10.9 million, then Tropical Storm Debby in 2012 with 40 and Hurricane Josephine in 1996 with 16. 72% 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, 192 have fewer than Orange Park.