Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Rincon, PR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Coloso, PR RQ, 6 miles northeast of Rincon at 40 feet. September is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 84°F and 66°F. August is the wettest at 10.5 inches of precipitation on average and December the driest at 2.4 inches; the year adds up to 77.6 inches over 121 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 66% of the year's precipitation (51.6 of 77.6 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 51 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (24); a normal September there has highs of 89°F and 9.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 108 days a year, almost all from February to December. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 77.6 inches is more than at 17 of the 21 Puerto Rico stations used on this site (81%). Mayaguez, 11 miles southeast, has its own station (Mayaguez City, PR RQ): 51.3 inches a year, 26.3 less than here, and a September average high of 90°F against 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Mayaguez, PR, 10 miles southeast, averaged 87°F in September and 81°F in February over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Magueyes Island tide gauge, 28 miles from Rincon, has risen 0.81 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1955 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 41 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 138 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Rincon: 72 floods, 28 flash floods, 28 thunderstorm wind reports, 8 heavy rain events and 2 lightning strikes. They killed 7 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $1.50 billion in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 52 mph, on July 26, 2013. July has had the most flash floods, 8 of 28. Of the 86 Puerto Rico cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 3 have had fewer than Rincon.

Flood insurance policyholders in Rincon's ZIP code 00677 have filed 44 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1988, and were paid $494,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Georges in 1998: 11 claims (25% of all) and $53,000. 59% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 72 Puerto Rico cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 23 have fewer than Rincon.