About Hurricane History Map
An interactive map of every recorded hurricane, typhoon and tropical cyclone worldwide, coloured by intensity. Search a town or ZIP code to see which storms have passed within 50, 100 and 200 km, the strongest and the most recent.
Hurricane History Map is a free, single-purpose website. It is built to be useful on its own: you can explore the map, share a link to exactly what you are looking at, embed it on your own page or download an image of it. Everything is made from open data, and the credits are on the data sources page.
Who runs it
This site is run by Chris Barnes, a sole trader (England and Wales). It is one of a small family of map sites; you can find the others in the "More maps" list at the bottom of every page.
How accurate is it?
We show the data as its authors published it, and we try to be honest about how certain it is. Where something is a best guess, the map says so. If you spot a mistake in how we display or describe the data, please tell us.
How it is paid for
The site is free to use. It may show adverts, and it offers an optional email newsletter. We do not sell your personal data.
Why this site exists
Most storm websites tell you what is happening now. This one looks back. It puts every tropical cyclone in the international record on one map, whatever ocean it formed in, so you can see which storms have passed near a place you know, how strong they were and when the most recent one came through.
How the map is made
The tracks come from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), version v04r01, kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). We downloaded it on 2026-10-12. It holds 13,248 storms from 1842 to 2026, with data to 2026-10-11 00:00. The counts for each state, county, country and season, and every figure on the place and storm pages, are worked out from that file by a script that runs the same way each time. We do not add or change any records. See the data sources page for the full list of credits and licences.
What the map does not show
Older records, especially from before the satellite era (about the 1960s), are estimates, and many storms that stayed at sea were never recorded. Tracks join six-hourly positions with straight lines. This site is not a forecast or a warning service. For active storms, use the National Hurricane Center or your national weather agency. Read the full notice.
Many of the storms in this record killed people and destroyed homes. We describe them plainly and give the numbers as the official record has them.