Toa Baja Municipio, Puerto Rico

What hazards hit Toa Baja Municipio most?

The most frequent records are floods and flash floods: 80 since 2001. Census land area gives no figure for Toa Baja Municipio under this code, so it carries no per-area rank.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (county and forecast-zone records attributed to the county; a zone record shows its own totals on each county it covers). Days: dates with at least one record of the hazard in the county. Ranks: days with a record per 1,000 square miles of land (Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer), since 1950 for tornadoes, 1955 for hail and thunderstorm wind, 1996 for the rest.

When was the last damaging storm in Toa Baja Municipio?

The most recent record with damage, injuries or deaths is the March 18, 2026 rip current (1 death and 3 injuries).

A man drowned after being swept away by rip currents at Condado Beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The man lost his life when he entered the water to rescue two of his friends.
National Weather Service event narrative, NOAA Storm Events Database (search the full record, event 1326600)

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database; every record of 2025-2026 is listed, earlier ones when they caused deaths, injuries or $250,000 of damage (2025 dollars), and every tornado.

The deadliest and costliest records

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: deaths and injuries direct and indirect; damage is property plus crops as estimated by the National Weather Service, converted to 2025 dollars.

Is it getting more frequent?

Records per decade for Toa Baja Municipio's most frequent hazards. Counts rose everywhere after 1996, when NOAA began recording every event type, so compare decades within a hazard's complete period only (the shaded cells come before it).

Rip currents and high surf in the 2020-26: 27 records against 9 in the decade before, 27 of them forecast-zone records. Cells marked z rose mostly through zone records. The local National Weather Service office files these once per forecast zone, so a change in how it draws its zones or splits a storm into records moves this count as much as the weather does; read it beside the Toa Baja Municipio days with a record above.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records per calendar decade; zone records from the CZ_TYPE field (Z).

What time of year?

Records by month in Toa Baja Municipio. The two busiest months are in violet.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records by the month they began.

Federal disaster declarations for Toa Baja Municipio

FEMA's register lists 29 declarations that include Toa Baja Municipio: 17 major disasters, 12 emergencies and 0 fire management assistance declarations. Most were for hurricane (14) and flood (7).

Source: FEMA OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries (v2), declarations through October 2, 2026; one declaration is counted once however many areas it names. OpenFEMA dataset page.

How many floods has Toa Baja Municipio had?

NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 80 flood or flash flood records for Toa Baja Municipio from 2001 to 2025, on 48 days, with 11 deaths. By flood insurance claims since 1978 (OpenFEMA, as of September 8, 2026), Toa Baja Municipio ranks 187th of 2,942 U.S. counties.

The National Flood Insurance Program has paid $17.9 million on 2,041 claims filed in Toa Baja Municipio; the most in one year was 1,097 in 1998. Claims count insured losses only: uninsured flood damage is not in this file.

Source: FEMA OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims, as of September 8, 2026; claims by year of loss, payments in the dollars of the year paid. OpenFEMA dataset page.

Counties that share a border with Toa Baja Municipio

1. San Juan Municipio 702
2. Bayamón Municipio 293
3. Dorado Municipio 252
4. Toa Baja Municipio 227
5. Toa Alta Municipio 197
6. Cataño Municipio 66

Source: U.S. Census Bureau county adjacency file; NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, records since 1950. The Census Bureau's adjacency file.

Next

• Floods in Puerto RicoThe state's floods and flash floods, by county, year and month
• The Puerto Rico recordEvery hazard in the state, its deadliest events and its federal declarations
• FEMA's risk rating for each hazard in Toa Baja MunicipioThe hazard risk calculator: 18 hazards beside the county's record
• Download Toa Baja Municipio's FEMA declarations (CSV)29 rows: every declaration that named the county, for your own analysis