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Hurricane Erin 2025

Category 5 hurricane · Atlantic · August 11 to August 22, 2025

Within 24 hours ending August 16, Erin's winds rose by 85 mph (75 knots), tied for the fourth-largest one-day gain in the Atlantic record. Tropical-storm-force winds reached 437 miles from its center, the tenth-widest reach among the 364 Atlantic storms with wind-radius data (kept since 2004). Its hurricane-force winds extended 127 miles from the center, tied for the fourth-widest hurricane-force field of the 171 Atlantic hurricanes measured this way since 2004.

Track of Erin (2025) from the best-track record, coloured by strength20°N30°N40°N50°N60°N80°W70°W60°W50°W40°W30°W20°W10°WCape Verde, 40 mphPeak 160 mphFirst recordNot tropicalDepressionTropical stormCategory 1Category 2Category 3Category 4Category 500 and 12 UTCLandfall

Strength over time

Maximum sustained wind of Erin (2025) over time, in mphTSCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 504080120160200Aug 12Aug 14Aug 16Aug 18Aug 20Aug 22Aug 24Aug 26mph
  1. First record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 16.5°N, 23.1°W
  2. Tropical storm far out at sea, at 17.2°N, 25.2°W
  3. Landfall Cape Verde: tropical storm, 40 mph, 1006 mb
  4. Hurricane 435 miles east-northeast of Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
  5. Major hurricane 165 miles north-northeast of Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis
  6. Peak 165 miles north-northeast of Christiansted, the US Virgin Islands; lowest pressure 913 mb
  7. No longer tropical (extratropical low) 380 miles south-southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  8. Last record far out at sea, at 58.0°N, 19.0°W

Against every Atlantic storm since 1851

Peak sustained wind160 mph · tied 28th of 1,98830 mph190 mph
Lowest central pressure913 mb · 16th of 1,277882 mb1016 mb
Accumulated cyclone energy31.8 · 80th of 1,7520.173.6
Days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone11.5 days · tied 163rd of 1,9880.0 days31.8 days

More from the record

Its best track runs 7,607 miles from first to last position, the ninth-longest path in the Atlantic database.

It reached Category 5 with 160 mph winds, one of 44 Atlantic storms to do so since 1851.

In the 2025 season

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Storm 5 of 13 in 2025, hurricane 1 of 5; it formed after Dexter and before Fernand. Erin produced 24% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy and ranks joint second by peak wind. See the season.

Closest to land

Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 129 miles from the center on August 17 (Category 3 hurricane stage).

Storms within 150 miles of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Also peaked at 160 mph

Of 15 storms from other Atlantic seasons, the nearest in time: