The earliest major hurricane (category 3 or greater) to strike the nation occurred in 1957, when Hurricane Audrey made landfall at category 3 intensity on June 27. The earliest time in the year for a hurricane to strike the nation was June 9, which was set by Alma in 1966. Or click on some coastal states to be directed to a list of tropical cyclones in those locationsĪs of June 2021, a total of 302 Atlantic tropical cyclones have produced hurricane-force winds in every state along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico (as well as Pennsylvania), with Florida having had more hurricanes affecting it than any other state. Map of the United States click on individual states to be directed to its article, The tables list hurricanes by category on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale, based on winds that occurred in each state. This list does not include storms that only produced tropical storm conditions on land in the United States.Īdditionally, three Pacific hurricanes struck Hawaii, and one Pacific tropical cyclone brought hurricane-force winds to California. remained just offshore) while producing hurricane-force winds on land some of them may have weakened to a tropical storm or became extratropical before landfall but produced hurricane conditions on land while still a hurricane and some of them made landfall in an adjacent state but produced hurricane conditions over multiple states.

Some of these storms may not have made a direct landfall (i.e. Since 1851, a total of 303 North Atlantic hurricanes produced hurricane-force winds in 19 states along the Atlantic coast. state, begins in 1851 with the start of the official Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT), as provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division. The list of United States hurricanes includes all tropical cyclones officially recorded to have produced sustained winds of greater than 74 mph (119 km/h) in the United States, which is the minimum threshold for hurricane intensity. Hurricanes reaching landfall in the U.S., by month.

Hurricane track history