Jacksonville's daily weather record starts in 1871 downtown and continues at Jacksonville International Airport. Below: what the National Hurricane Center and NWS Jacksonville measured in three recent hurricanes, the ten wettest days in the record, and every day with 2.04 in. of rain or more (the wettest 1 percent), each ranked against all 56,664 days that have a rain reading.
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Irma, Matthew and Ian in Jacksonville
Hurricane Irma, September 11, 2017
9.72 in.
in the station record on September 10, 2017 and September 11, 2017
The National Hurricane Center counted 9.20 inches of rain at Jacksonville International Airport and a 75-knot gust there. The St. Johns set record flood stages at many Duval County gauges, flood water in city streets reached 5 feet deep in some spots, and hundreds of people were rescued. The I-295 bridge gauge peaked at 5.3 feet above mean higher high water.
NWS Jacksonville logged a gust of 82 mph a mile east of Fort Caroline and 76 mph at Jacksonville Beach. Rain over two days reached 8.15 inches near Jacksonville Heights and 6.75 inches at the airport. The Mayport tide gauge rose to 5.14 feet (NAVD88), its second-highest level since the hurricane of 1898.
in the station record on September 29, 2022 and September 30, 2022
NWS Jacksonville recorded 2.71 feet above mean higher high water at the Main Street Bridge and 3.06 feet at the Buckman Bridge, with the Cedar River at 2.86 feet and Pottsburg Creek at 2.71 feet.
Storm figures come from the reports linked in each card; the station rain totals beside them come from ACIS and cover only the calendar days shown, so they can differ from storm-total figures in the reports.
Source: ACIS daily record, Jacksonville Area (JAXthr 9), calculated by Jax Water Damage Hub on November 12, 2026. Method on the sources page. Limits: 10 of 56,674 days have no rain reading; the record moved from downtown to the airport, and a single gauge can miss rain a few miles away.
