Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Jacksonville Beach, FL, 7 miles north of Ponte Vedra Beach at 10 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 65°F and 49°F. August is the wettest at 7.5 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 52.4 inches over 75 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 65% of the year's precipitation (34.0 of 52.4 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 91 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal October there has highs of 80°F and 5.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 36 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 4 nights a year. That 52.4 inches is more than at 41 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (33%). Atlantic Beach, 11 miles north, has its own station (Mayport Pilot Stn, FL): 48.6 inches a year, 3.8 less than here, and a July average high of 90°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Mayport (Bar Pilots Dock), FL, 15 miles north, averaged 84°F in August and 59°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from June to September. Sea level at the Mayport tide gauge, 15 miles from Ponte Vedra Beach, 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 203 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Ponte Vedra Beach: 97 thunderstorm wind reports, 68 heavy rain events, 22 floods, 15 lightning strikes and 1 flash flood. They killed 0 people and injured 12, and the NWS estimated $38.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 74 mph, on June 16, 2009.

Flood insurance policyholders in Ponte Vedra Beach's ZIP code 32082 have filed 1,229 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $36.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Matthew in 2016: 452 claims (37% of all) and $16.9 million, then Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 282 and Hurricane Nicole in 2022 with 50. 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, 252 have fewer than Ponte Vedra Beach.