Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pace, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Pensacola 7 NNE, FL, 7 miles south of Pace at 114 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 74°F; January is the coolest, at 61°F and 42°F. July is the wettest at 8.3 inches of precipitation on average and May the driest at 3.9 inches; the year adds up to 67.9 inches over 82 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (37.6 of 67.9 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 69 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (26); a normal September there has highs of 88°F and 6.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 80 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 13 nights a year. That 67.9 inches is more than at 118 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (94%). Gulf Breeze, 7 miles east, has its own station (Whiting Field NAS, FL): 63.3 inches a year, 4.6 less than here, and the same July average high, 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Pensacola, FL, 16 miles south, averaged 88°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 Pensacola tide gauge, 16 miles from Pace, has risen 1.07 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1923 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 60 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 156 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Pace: 88 thunderstorm wind reports, 39 lightning strikes, 25 flash floods and 4 heavy rain events. They killed 0 people and injured 8, and the NWS estimated $18.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on January 28, 1997. June has had the most flash floods, 12 of 25. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 241 have had fewer than Pace.

Flood insurance policyholders in Pace's ZIP code 32571 have filed 280 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $12.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sally in 2020: 63 claims (23% of all) and $3.7 million, then Hurricane Ivan in 2004 with 37 and Mid-spring storms in 2014 with 37. 75% 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, 171 have fewer than Pace.