Hurricane History Map

Hurricanes that hit Guam: hurricane history

107 storms have passed within 50 km of Guam from 1911 to 2025, drawn on the map and coloured by intensity.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near Guam

The record holds 107 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Guam between 1911 and 2025. The busiest month is August, with 25 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 5 strength. 36 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 107storms within 50 km
  • 12major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 22at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near Guam?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1918%
Tropical storm3028%
Category 177%
Category 233%
Category 344%
Category 466%
Category 522%
Unknown intensity3634%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (western Pacific).

Guam storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 18 in 1950s.1910s61920s71930s41940s101950s181960s121970s81980s61990s112000s62010s102020s9

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1911, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1910s6
1920s7
1930s4
1940s10
1950s18
1960s12
1970s8
1980s6
1990s11
2000s6
2010s10
2020s9

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 25 in Aug.Jan2Feb0Mar2Apr1May5Jun3Jul14Aug25Sep18Oct18Nov16Dec3
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan2
Feb0
Mar2
Apr1
May5
Jun3
Jul14
Aug25
Sep18
Oct18
Nov16
Dec3

Strongest storms near Guam

  • Lola (1957)7 November 1957 to 22 November 1957, peak Category 5 (160 kt), 900 hPa
  • Karen (1962)7 November 1962 to 18 November 1962, peak Category 5 (160 kt), 900 hPa
  • Paka (1997)28 November 1997 to 23 December 1997, Category 4 (135 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (160 kt), 920 hPa
  • Pongsona (2002)1 December 2002 to 11 December 2002, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 940 hPa
  • Olive (1963)25 April 1963 to 9 May 1963, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 920 hPa
  • Mawar (2023)18 May 2023 to 3 June 2023, Category 4 (125 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (165 kt), 900 hPa

Most recent storms near Guam

  • Nakri (2025)6 October 2025 to 16 October 2025, Unknown intensity near here, peak Category 1 (74 kt), 970 hPa, provisional
  • Krosa (2025)23 July 2025 to 5 August 2025, Tropical depression (25 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (80 kt), 965 hPa, provisional
  • Man-Yi (2024)7 November 2024 to 20 November 2024, Tropical storm (40 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 920 hPa
  • Kong-Rey (2024)24 October 2024 to 2 November 2024, Tropical depression (30 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 925 hPa
  • Pulasan (2024)15 September 2024 to 24 September 2024, Tropical depression (30 kt) near here, peak Tropical storm (55 kt), 992 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

Guam ranks number 11 among US states and territories for the number of storms.

Notable storms near Guam with their own pages

  • Lola (1957)7 November 1957 to 22 November 1957, peak Category 5 (160 kt), 900 hPa
  • Karen (1962)7 November 1962 to 18 November 1962, peak Category 5 (160 kt), 900 hPa
  • Paka (1997)28 November 1997 to 23 December 1997, peak Category 5 (160 kt), 920 hPa
  • Pongsona (2002)1 December 2002 to 11 December 2002, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 940 hPa
  • Olive (1963)25 April 1963 to 9 May 1963, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 920 hPa
  • Mawar (2023)18 May 2023 to 3 June 2023, peak Category 5 (165 kt), 900 hPa
  • Pamela (1976)14 May 1976 to 1 June 1976, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 920 hPa
  • Omar (1992)23 August 1992 to 9 September 1992, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 920 hPa
  • Roy (1988)5 January 1988 to 19 January 1988, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 940 hPa
  • Sally (1964)3 September 1964 to 11 September 1964, peak Category 5 (170 kt), 895 hPa
  • Chataan (2002)27 June 2002 to 13 July 2002, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 930 hPa
  • Dolphin (2015)6 May 2015 to 24 May 2015, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 925 hPa

Guam counties

Every county that a storm has come near is listed, most storms first. 1 of them have at least 3 storms and their own page.

CountyStormsStrongest near the county
Guam107Category 5

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