Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Vieques, PR

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Roosevelt Roads, PR RQ, 15 miles northwest of Vieques at 33 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 89°F and low of 78°F; January is the coolest, at 83°F and 71°F. May is the wettest at 6.7 inches of precipitation on average and March the driest at 1.8 inches; the year adds up to 50.9 inches over 98 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 61% of the year's precipitation (30.8 of 50.9 inches); the other six months are drier. August has brought the most of the 67 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (26); a normal August there has highs of 89°F and 4.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 63 days a year, almost all from April to November. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 50.9 inches is more than at 4 of the 21 Puerto Rico stations used on this site (19%). Humacao, 24 miles west, has its own station (Juncos 1 SE, PR RQ): 67.5 inches a year, 16.6 more than here, and the same August average high, 89°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Esperanza, Vieques Island, PR, 2 miles southwest, averaged 87°F in September and 80°F in February over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Charlotte Amalie tide gauge, 38 miles from Vieques, has risen 0.87 ± 0.10 inches per decade from 1975 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 8.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 48 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in Vieques's ZIP code 00765 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $250,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 64% 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, 2 have fewer than Vieques.