Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Rockledge, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Melbourne WFO, FL, 14 miles south of Rockledge at 35 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 72°F and 51°F. September is the wettest at 8.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.3 inches; the year adds up to 55.3 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 (38.3 of 55.3 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 85 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (25); a normal October there has highs of 84°F and 5.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 76 days a year, almost all from April to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 2 nights a year. That 55.3 inches is more than at 70 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (56%). Merritt Island, 5 miles northeast, has its own station (Titusville 7 E, FL): 48.7 inches a year, 6.6 less than here, and an August average high of 89°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Trident Pier, Port Canaveral, FL, 11 miles northeast, averaged 87°F in September and 69°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to October. Sea level at the Port Canaveral tide gauge, 11 miles from Rockledge, has risen 2.52 ± 0.26 inches per decade from 1994 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 25.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 137 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 117 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Rockledge: 98 thunderstorm wind reports, 8 lightning strikes, 5 flash floods, 5 heavy rain events and 1 flood. They killed 3 people and injured 13, and the NWS estimated $78.9 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on October 21, 2002. October has had the most flash floods, 3 of 5. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 143 have had fewer than Rockledge.

Flood insurance policyholders in Rockledge's ZIP code 32955 have filed 179 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1987, and were paid $1.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irma in 2017: 39 claims (22% of all) and $496,000, then Tropical Storm Fay in 2008 with 30 and Hurricane Frances in 2004 with 13. 69% 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, 137 have fewer than Rockledge.