The St. Lucie Village plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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6.70 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1901. The next wettest, 4.82 inches, fell in 1954.
St. Lucie Village’s center stands about 14 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 40 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
Rain that falls on St. Lucie Village runs straight into the Atlantic Ocean.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of St. Lucie Village; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
St. Lucie Village has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 51° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 St. Lucie Village normally reaches 79° and falls to 61°. The record high is 88°, in 1970; the record low 35°, in 1906. The most rain on this date, 4.24 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1901 from the Fort Pierce Area threaded record (Fort Pierce St Lucie County International Airport, 2 miles west). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
