Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Wilton Manors, FL

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Fort Lauderdale Beach, FL, 2 miles southeast of Wilton Manors at 4 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 77°F; January is the coolest, at 77°F and 60°F. September is the wettest at 9.3 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 64.4 inches over 85 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 66% of the year's precipitation (42.6 of 64.4 inches); the other six months are drier. October has brought the most of the 86 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (28); a normal October there has highs of 86°F and 7.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 70 days a year, almost all from April to October. A night below freezing comes less than once a year on average. That 64.4 inches is more than at 110 of the 125 Florida stations used on this site (88%). Oakland Park, 2 miles north, has its own station (Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, FL): 56.6 inches a year, 7.8 less than here, and the same August average high, 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station South Port Everglades, FL, 5 miles south, averaged 96°F in August and 82°F in January over 2021–2025. Sea level at the Virginia Key tide gauge, 29 miles from Wilton Manors, has risen 1.26 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1931 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 76 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 270 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Wilton Manors: 160 thunderstorm wind reports, 53 floods, 28 lightning strikes, 17 flash floods and 12 heavy rain events. They killed 2 people and injured 17, and the NWS estimated $34.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on August 25, 1997. October has had the most flash floods, 5 of 17. Of the 277 Florida cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 214 have had fewer than Wilton Manors.

Flood insurance policyholders in Wilton Manors's ZIP code 33305 have filed 480 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $7.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from April Florida Flooding in 2023: 54 claims (11% of all) and $1.8 million, then Hurricane Irene in 1999 with 45 and Hurricane Wilma in 2005 with 37. The year with the most claims was 2011, with 135. 50% 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, 203 have fewer than Wilton Manors.