Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Riviera Beach, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Juno Beach, FL, 5 miles north of Riviera Beach at 5 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 75°F and 58°F. June is the wettest at 10.1 inches of precipitation on average and January and February the driest at 3.9 inches; the year adds up to 72.4 inches over 98 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 62% of the year's precipitation (44.8 of 72.4 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 82 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (25); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 6.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 90 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 72.4 inches is more than at 123 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (98%). Palm Beach, 5 miles south, has its own station (West Palm Beach International Airport, FL): 61.8 inches a year, 10.6 less than here, and an August average high of 90°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Lake Worth Pier, Atlantic Ocean, FL, 12 miles south, averaged 86°F in August and 75°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Lake Worth Pier tide gauge, 12 miles from Riviera Beach, has risen 1.62 ± 0.10 inches per decade from 1970 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 16.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 99 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 113 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Riviera Beach: 72 thunderstorm wind reports, 16 floods, 13 lightning strikes, 9 flash floods and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 1 person and injured 7, and the NWS estimated $15.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 2, 2004. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 177 have had fewer than Riviera Beach.

Flood insurance policyholders in Riviera Beach's ZIP code 33404 have filed 351 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $2.5 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Frances in 2004: 84 claims (24% of all) and $628,000, then Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 with 39 and Hurricane Irma in 2017 with 35. 64% 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, 182 have fewer than Riviera Beach.