The list of United States hurricanes includes all tropical cyclones officially recorded to have produced sustained winds of greater than in the United States, which is the minimum threshold for hurricane intensity. The list, which is sorted by U.S. 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. Since 1851, a total of 306 North Atlantic hurricanes produced hurricane-force winds in 19 states along the Atlantic coast. Some of these storms may not have made a direct landfall (i.e. 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. This list does not include storms that only produced tropical storm conditions on land in the United States.
Additionally, six Pacific hurricanes struck Hawaii, and one Pacific tropical cyclone brought hurricane-force winds to California. The tables list hurricanes by category on the Saffir–Simpson scale, based on winds that occurred in each state.
Statistics
As of 2026, a total of 306 Atlantic hurricanes 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.
The earliest time in the year for a hurricane (and a major hurricane) to strike the nation was June 9, which was set by Alma in 1966. The earliest major hurricane (category 3 or greater) to make an actual landfall in the nation occurred in 1957, when Hurricane Audrey made landfall at category 3 intensity on June 27. The latest in the year for a hurricane to strike the nation was on November 24 with Hurricane Iwa in Hawaii; for the Atlantic basin the latest was on November 22, which was set by Hurricane Kate in 1985. The latest in the year for a major hurricane to strike the nation was from Hurricane Zeta, which moved ashore on October 28.
The 1990s were the most active decade for the United States, with a total of 31 hurricanes affecting the nation. By contrast, the least active decade was the 1970s, with a total of only 14 hurricanes affecting the United States. A total of 34 seasons on record passed without an Atlantic hurricane affecting the country — the most recent of which was the 2025 season. Seven Atlantic hurricanes affected the country in the 1886 season, which was the year with the most United States hurricanes.
Impact The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar. It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which had landfall pressures of 931 mbar, 932 mbar, 900 mbar, 922 mbar, 919 mbar, and 900 mbar, respectively. Hurricane Michael in 2018 was the fourth most intense hurricane to strike the country with a pressure of 919 mbar, while hurricanes Katrina in 2005 and Maria in 2017 are tied as the fifth most intense hurricanes to strike the country, each with a pressure of 920 mbar.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane was the deadliest hurricane in the history of the United States, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people. 2017s Hurricane Maria resulted in at least 2,982 fatalities. The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused at least 2,500 fatalities, and in 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed approximately 1,800 people. In the 1893 season, two hurricanes each caused over 1,000 deaths.
Not accounting for inflation, a total of twenty Atlantic hurricanes have resulted in over US$10 billion in damage, including three each from the 2004, 2005, and 2017 seasons, respectively. The costliest hurricanes were Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017, both with uninflated damage totals amounting to US$125 billion.
List of states
The category listed for each state indicates the maximum category of sustained winds that were recorded or analyzed to have occurred in that state. It is not necessarily the category of the storm at the time of landfall or closest approach (if the strongest winds were occurring elsewhere or only over water at the time).
Alabama
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1852 Unnamed 1856 Unnamed 1859 Unnamed 1860 Unnamed 1860 Unnamed 1870 Unnamed 1882 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1901 Unnamed 1906 Unnamed 1912 Unnamed 1916 Unnamed 1916 Unnamed 1917 Unnamed 1926 Unnamed 1932 Baker 1950 Camille 1969 Eloise 1975 Frederic 1979 Elena 1985 Opal 1995 Danny 1997 Ivan 2004 Dennis 2005 Katrina 2005 Michael 2018 Sally 2020 Zeta 2020Sources: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT
Connecticut
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1858 Unnamed 1869 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1894 Unnamed 1938 Unnamed 1944 Carol 1954 Donna 1960 Gloria 1985 Bob 1991Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
Delaware
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1878 Unnamed 1903Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
Florida
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1851 Unnamed 1852 Unnamed 1852 Unnamed 1852 Unnamed 1854 Unnamed 1856 Unnamed 1859 Unnamed 1859 Unnamed 1861 Unnamed 1865 Unnamed 1867 Unnamed 1870 Unnamed 1870 Unnamed 1871 Unnamed 1871 Unnamed 1871 Unnamed 1873 Unnamed 1873 Unnamed 1874 Unnamed 1876 Unnamed 1877 Unnamed 1877 Unnamed 1878 Unnamed 1880 Unnamed 1880 Unnamed 1882 Unnamed 1882 Unnamed 1885 Unnamed 1886 Unnamed 1886 Unnamed 1886 Unnamed 1887 Unnamed 1888 Unnamed 1888 Unnamed 1891 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1894 Unnamed 1894 Unnamed 1896 Unnamed 1896 Unnamed 1898 Unnamed 1898 Unnamed 1899 Unnamed 1903 Unnamed 1904 Unnamed 1906 Unnamed 1906 Unnamed 1906 Unnamed 1909 Unnamed 1910 Unnamed 1911 Unnamed 1912 Unnamed 1915 Unnamed 1915 Unnamed 1916 Unnamed 1916 Unnamed 1917 Unnamed 1919 Unnamed 1921 Unnamed 1924 Unnamed 1924 Unnamed 1926 Unnamed 1926 Unnamed 1926 Unnamed 1928 Unnamed 1928 Unnamed 1929 Unnamed 1932 Unnamed 1933 Unnamed 1933 Unnamed 1935 Unnamed 1935 Unnamed 1936 Unnamed 1939 Unnamed 1941 Unnamed 1944 Unnamed 1945 Unnamed 1945 Unnamed 1946 Unnamed 1947 Unnamed 1947 Unnamed 1948 Unnamed 1948 Unnamed 1949 Easy 1950 King 1950 Florence 1953 Hazel 1953 Flossy 1956 Donna 1960 Cleo 1964 Dora 1964 Isbell 1964 Betsy 1965 Alma 1966 Inez 1966 Gladys 1968 Agnes 1972 Eloise 1975 David 1979 Elena 1985 Kate 1985 Floyd 1987 Andrew 1992 Erin 1995 Opal 1995 Earl 1998 Georges 1998 Irene 1999 Charley 2004 Frances 2004 Ivan 2004 Jeanne 2004 Dennis 2005 KatrinaCategory 1 hurricane 2005 Rita 2005 Wilma 2005 Hermine 2016 Matthew 2016 Irma 2017 Michael 2018 Sally 2020 Ian 2022 Idalia 2023 Debby 2024 Helene 2024 Milton 2024Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
Georgia
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1851 Unnamed 1852 Unnamed 1853 Unnamed 1854 Unnamed 1856 Unnamed 1877 Unnamed 1878 Unnamed 1881 Unnamed 1885 Unnamed 1886 Unnamed 1886 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1894 Unnamed 1896 Unnamed 1898 Unnamed 1898 Unnamed 1911 Unnamed 1928 "Labor Day" 1935 Unnamed 1940 Unnamed 1947 Unnamed 1949 David 1979 Kate 1985 Matthew 2016 Michael 2018 Idalia 2023 Helene 2024Sources: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT
Louisiana
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1852 Unnamed 1855 Unnamed 1856 Unnamed 1860 Unnamed 1860 Unnamed 1860 Unnamed 1865 Unnamed 1867 Unnamed 1869 Unnamed 1877 Unnamed 1879 Unnamed 1879 Unnamed 1886 Unnamed 1886 Unnamed 1887 Unnamed 1888 Unnamed 1889 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1897 Unnamed 1901 Unnamed 1906 Unnamed 1909 Unnamed 1915 Unnamed 1915 Unnamed 1917 Unnamed 1918 Unnamed 1920 Unnamed 1923 Unnamed 1926 Unnamed 1934 Unnamed 1938 Unnamed 1940 Unnamed 1947 Unnamed 1948 Flossy 1956 Audrey 1957 Ethel 1964 Hilda 1964 Betsy 1965 Camille 1969 Edith 1971 Carmen 1974 Babe 1977 Bob 1979 Danny 1985 Juan 1985 Florence 1988 Andrew 1992 Danny 1997 Lili 2002 Cindy 2005 Katrina 2005 Rita 2005 Humberto 2007 Gustav 2008 Isaac 2012 Nate 2017 Barry 2019 Laura 2020 Delta 2020 Zeta 2020 Ida 2021 Francine 2024Sources: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT
Maine
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1869 Gloria 1985Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
Maryland
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1878 Unnamed 1933Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
Massachusetts
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1858 Unnamed 1869 Unnamed 1869 Unnamed 1879 Unnamed 1896 Unnamed 1924 Unnamed 1938 Unnamed 1944 Carol 1954 Edna 1954 Donna 1960 Bob 1991Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
Mississippi
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1852 Unnamed 1855 Unnamed 1860 Unnamed 1860 Unnamed 1888 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1901 Unnamed 1906 Unnamed 1909 Unnamed 1915 Unnamed 1916 Unnamed 1923 Unnamed 1926 Unnamed 1947 Ethel 1960 Camille 1969 Frederic 1979 Elena 1985 Georges 1998 Katrina 2005 Nate 2017 Zeta 2020Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
New Hampshire
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Gloria 1985Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
New Jersey
Although Hurricane Sandy struck the state in October 2012 and produced hurricane-force winds, it became an extratropical cyclone before landfall or producing any hurricane-strength winds. Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1878 Unnamed 1903 Unnamed 1934 Unnamed 1944Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
New York
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1858 Unnamed 1869 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1894 Unnamed 1934 Unnamed 1938 Unnamed 1944 Carol 1954 Edna 1954 Donna 1960 Belle 1976 Gloria 1985 Bob 1991 Sandy 2012Source: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States
North Carolina
Name Saffir–SimpsonCategory Date of closest approach Year Unnamed 1857 Unnamed 1861 Unnamed 1861 Unnamed 1874 Unnamed 1876 Unnamed 1878 Unnamed 1879 Unnamed 1880 Unnamed 1881 Unnamed 1883 Unnamed 1885 Unnamed 1887 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1893 Unnamed 1896 Unnamed 1899 Unnamed 1899 Unnamed 1901 Unnamed 1906 Unnamed 1908 Unnamed 1913 Unnamed 1918 Unnamed 1924 Unnamed 1933 Unnamed 1933 Unnamed 1934 Unnamed 1936 Unnamed 1944 Unnamed 1944 Unnamed 1949 Barbara 1953 Carol 1954 Edna 1954 Hazel 1954 Connie 1955 Ione 1955 Helene 1958 Donna 1960 Ginger 1971 Diana 1984 Gloria 1985 Charley 1986 Hugo 1989 Emily 1993 Bertha 1996 Fran 1996 Bonnie 1998 Floyd 1999 Irene 1999 Isabel 2003 Alex 2004 Charley 2004 Ophelia 2005 Irene 2011 Arthur 2014 Matthew 2016 FlorenceCategory 1 hurricane 2018 DorianCategory 2 hurricane 2019 Isaias 2020Sources: Chronological List of All Hurricanes which Affected the Continental United States Documentation of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Changes in HURDAT
Pennsylvania