Storms near a place
Pick a town or city and a distance to list every storm whose center passed that close in the best-track record, with the strength it had at the time. The result below is the starting example: Miami, Florida, 50 miles, hurricanes only.
Within 50 miles of Miami, Florida, 28 storms passed at hurricane strength in the Atlantic (since 1851) and eastern and central Pacific (since 1949) records. The closest pass was Storm 9 of 1948, 1 mile away; the most recent was Katrina (2005), on August 25.
- Not tropical
- Depression
- Tropical storm
- Category 1
- Category 2
- Category 3
- Category 4
- Category 5
The ring is the search distance. Whole tracks of the listed storms are drawn.
By decade
Strength when closest
- Category 51
- Category 44
- Category 33
- Category 26
- Category 114
Every storm, most recent first
| Storm | Year | Closest on | Distance | Strength then | Wind then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katrina | 2005 | Aug 25 | 9 mi | Category 1 | 80 mph |
| Irene | 1999 | Oct 15 | 31 mi | Category 1 | 75 mph |
| Andrew | 1992 | Aug 24 | 20 mi | Category 5 | 165 mph |
| David | 1979 | Sep 3 | 50 mi | Category 2 | 100 mph |
| Inez | 1966 | Oct 4 | 49 mi | Category 1 | 85 mph |
| Isbell | 1964 | Oct 14 | 47 mi | Category 1 | 90 mph |
| Cleo | 1964 | Aug 27 | 8 mi | Category 2 | 110 mph |
| King | 1950 | Oct 18 | 1 mi | Category 4 | 130 mph |
| Storm 9 of 1948 | 1948 | Oct 5 | 1 mi | Category 1 | 90 mph |
| Storm 9 of 1947 | 1947 | Oct 12 | 12 mi | Category 1 | 80 mph |
| Storm 4 of 1947 | 1947 | Sep 17 | 21 mi | Category 4 | 130 mph |
| Storm 9 of 1945 | 1945 | Sep 15 | 26 mi | Category 4 | 130 mph |
| Storm 5 of 1941 | 1941 | Oct 6 | 20 mi | Category 2 | 100 mph |
| Storm 7 of 1935 | 1935 | Nov 4 | 6 mi | Category 2 | 100 mph |
| Storm 10 of 1926 | 1926 | Oct 21 | 32 mi | Category 3 | 125 mph |
| Storm 7 of 1926 | 1926 | Sep 18 | 14 mi | Category 4 | 145 mph |
| Storm 10 of 1924 | 1924 | Oct 21 | 49 mi | Category 1 | 80 mph |
| Storm 11 of 1909 | 1909 | Oct 11 | 35 mi | Category 2 | 105 mph |
| Storm 8 of 1906 | 1906 | Oct 18 | 1 mi | Category 3 | 120 mph |
| Storm 2 of 1906 | 1906 | Jun 17 | 2 mi | Category 1 | 85 mph |
| Storm 4 of 1904 | 1904 | Oct 17 | 34 mi | Category 1 | 80 mph |
| Storm 3 of 1903 | 1903 | Sep 11 | 23 mi | Category 1 | 85 mph |
| Storm 3 of 1891 | 1891 | Aug 24 | 27 mi | Category 1 | 80 mph |
| Storm 3 of 1888 | 1888 | Aug 16 | 4 mi | Category 3 | 125 mph |
| Storm 2 of 1885 | 1885 | Aug 24 | 50 mi | Category 1 | 80 mph |
| Storm 11 of 1878 | 1878 | Oct 21 | 17 mi | Category 1 | 80 mph |
| Storm 6 of 1870 | 1870 | Oct 11 | 47 mi | Category 2 | 105 mph |
| Storm 7 of 1865 | 1865 | Oct 23 | 28 mi | Category 1 | 90 mph |
What the numbers mean
Distance is measured from the place to the storm's center line, drawn as straight lines between the six-hourly best-track positions. A storm's winds reach well beyond its center, so a storm listed at 40 miles may have brought strong wind, and one just outside the ring may also have. The list is a record of track positions, not of impacts.
Strength when closest is the classification at the six-hourly record nearest to the moment of closest approach, and the wind is that record's one-minute sustained wind. The strength filter only counts the parts of a track where the storm held at least that strength at both ends of a six-hourly step.
The place list holds the 1,135 towns and cities of 10,000 people or more in Natural Earth's populated-places file between the Caribbean and Canada and from Hawaii to Bermuda. Coordinates reach any other spot. Records before the 1960s are thinner, above all far from land: see how to read the record.