Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Riverview, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Plant City, FL, 9 miles east of Riverview at 110 feet. July and August are the warmest, with an average high of 94°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 75°F and 50°F. June is the wettest at 9.7 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 56.2 inches over 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 69% of the year's precipitation (38.7 of 56.2 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 68 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (25); a normal September there has highs of 92°F and 7.0 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 111 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 3 nights a year. That 56.2 inches is more than at 79 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (63%). Temple Terrace, 6 miles west, has its own station (Tampa International Airport, FL): 49.6 inches a year, 6.6 less than here, and a July average high of 91°F against 94°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station East Bay, FL, 12 miles southwest, averaged 89°F in July and 64°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the East Bay tide gauge, 12 miles from Riverview, has risen 2.17 ± 0.16 inches per decade from 1976 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 21.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 125 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 122 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Riverview: 99 thunderstorm wind reports, 15 lightning strikes, 5 heavy rain events and 3 floods. They killed 2 people and injured 29, and the NWS estimated $5.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 86 mph, on June 26, 1997.

Flood insurance policyholders in Riverview's 3 ZIP codes have filed 576 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $18.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Helene in 2024: 83 claims (14% of all) and $9.5 million, then Hurricane Milton in 2024 with 72 and Hurricane Frances in 2004 with 44. 85% 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, 213 have fewer than Riverview.