Hurricane tracks, storm by storm

Season by season

Accumulated cyclone energy sums every storm's wind, squared, at six-hourly steps; a busy season stands tall. Each bar opens its season or decade.

Atlantic, 1851–2025

Eastern and central Pacific, 1949–2025

All seasons

From the record

• How many Category 5 hurricanes are on record

  44 in the Atlantic since 1851 and 24 in the eastern Pacific since 1949, most of them recent.

• The strongest Atlantic hurricanes, by wind and by pressure

  Allen and Melissa share the top wind; Wilma holds the lowest pressure. Fifteen-storm tables for both.

• Which US states get the most hurricane landfalls

  Florida leads with 229 storms since 1851; the table covers every state and territory in the record.

• When hurricanes form: the season month by month

  September dominates the Atlantic; the eastern Pacific peaks in August and starts earlier.

• Accumulated cyclone energy: how busy seasons are measured

  1933 and 2005 top the Atlantic; 2015 leads the Pacific. How the number is built.

• Rapid intensification: the biggest one-day jumps in wind

  Wilma gained 95 knots in 24 hours, Patricia 105. How often hurricanes jump 30 knots in a day.

• Eastern Pacific hurricanes: Mexico, Hawaii and the open ocean

  Since 1989 only 14% of Pacific storms have a landfall record; nearly all of those hit Mexico.