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The public record 1996 to today

Florida wind history

The public federal storm record holds 5,106 days with wind on record somewhere in Florida since 1996, 1,780 of them at 58 mph or more, across 79,383 reports. The strongest on record is 140 mph on 17 July 2004 in DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF FL County. 227 cities have wind on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched, which storm days more than one source carried, and how far away the nearest instruments stood. The hail family has its own index: Florida hail history.

5,106

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,780

Days at 58 mph or more

140mph

Strongest measured, Jul 2004

227

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Florida

Ranked by days with wind on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population, each with its strongest figure: measured in the observed tone, an estimate in the estimated tone. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Atlantic Beach 555 days 92 mph
  2. 02 Neptune Beach 555 days 92 mph
  3. 03 Jacksonville 548 days 108 mph
  4. 04 Cocoa Beach 518 days 92 mph
  5. 05 Jacksonville Beach 499 days 92 mph
  6. 06 Cape Canaveral 485 days 97 mph
  7. 07 Pinellas Park 459 days 90 mph
  8. 08 Satellite Beach 450 days 89 mph
  9. 09 St. Petersburg 447 days 90 mph
  10. 10 Melbourne 439 days 89 mph
  11. 11 Indian Harbour Beach 435 days 89 mph
  12. 12 St. Pete Beach 433 days 90 mph
  13. 13 Key West 431 days 69 mph
  14. 14 Gulfport 430 days 90 mph
  15. 15 Titusville 413 days 92 mph
  16. 16 Rockledge 406 days 92 mph
  17. 17 Orange Park 402 days 81 mph
  18. 18 Key Biscayne 377 days 107 mph
  19. 19 Belle Isle 374 days 86 mph
  20. 20 Palm Coast 369 days 81 mph
  21. 21 South Pasadena 369 days 90 mph
  22. 22 Miami 368 days 90 mph
  23. 23 Cocoa 365 days 92 mph
  24. 24 Lauderdale Lakes 364 days 92 mph
  25. 25 Tampa 362 days 86 mph
  26. 26 Fort Lauderdale 360 days 92 mph
  27. 27 Oakland Park 357 days 92 mph
  28. 28 Wilton Manors 355 days 92 mph
  29. 29 Casselberry 354 days 84 mph
  30. 30 Marathon 354 days 99 mph
Every place in Florida (227)

Wind days by year in Florida

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2022, with 224 days of wind, 71 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Florida

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Florida: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
17 Jul 2004 140 mph Gust Ground observation DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF FL
02 Feb 1998 120 mph Sustained Ground observation MONROE
28 Aug 2010 120 mph Gust Ground observation ATCHAFALAYA R TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LA 20 TO 60NM
10 Oct 2018 119 mph Gust Ground observation BAY
13 Jul 1999 115 mph Sustained Ground observation NASSAU
09 May 2024 111 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
09 May 2024 111 mph Gust Ground observation SANTA ROSA
09 May 2024 111 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
The next step

Get the wind report for an address in Florida

The figures on this page are the record across Florida: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under Florida by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A wind day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of wind, not four. A report's figure is its gust where it has one and its sustained speed otherwise, and the tables say which.
Measured and estimated
A speed reported by a person or an instrument on the ground, whether read from an anemometer or judged by an observer from what the wind did, is filed as observed; a speed inferred from a grid or an analysis is an estimate and is marked as one. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its strongest figure reached 58 mph, the National Weather Service criterion for a damaging gust. Weaker wind is still on the record, and still on this page.
Stations
A station reading is the wind at the instrument, not at any address, and is listed with the distance from the page's centre to the instrument. Readings are fetched for the ground around an address when a report is run and held afterwards, so the stations on a page are the ones within 30 miles that the archive holds readings from.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about what reached one.
Terms used on this page
Peak gust, sustained wind, independent source: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 1 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.