Hurricane tracker
Every active tropical cyclone, with the National Hurricane Center’s forecast position and intensity at each lead time — the actual numbers from the advisory, not a redrawn cone.
Never use this page to make a safety decision. Everything here is relayed from the National Hurricane Center and can be out of date. For warnings, evacuation orders and anything that affects your safety, go to hurricanes.gov and follow your local emergency management.
1 active storm
This is the climatological peak of the Atlantic season — early September is when activity is historically highest.
How storms are classified
The Saffir–Simpson scale rates a hurricane on sustained wind speed alone. It says nothing about storm surge, rainfall or flooding, which is why a Category 1 can still be the deadliest thing to hit a coastline in a decade.
- Tropical DepressionUp to 38 mphOrganised circulation, no name yet.
- Tropical Storm39–73 mphGets a name. Damaging rain and gusts.
- Category 174–95 mphSome damage to roofs, siding and trees.
- Category 296–110 mphMajor roof and siding damage; near-total power loss likely.
- Category 3111–129 mphMajor hurricane. Devastating damage.
- Category 4130–156 mphCatastrophic damage; most of the area uninhabitable for weeks.
- Category 5157+ mphCatastrophic. A high percentage of framed homes destroyed.
Why we show the advisory numbers
Most trackers redraw the forecast cone as a picture. The cone is a statement about uncertainty — it contains the storm centre about two thirds of the time, and it says nothing about where the damage reaches, which is routinely far outside it.
So we publish the advisory as issued: projected position and intensity at each lead time, with the timestamp it was made. Those are dated, checkable claims. We archive every one, which means that after a season we can say how close the 48-hour calls actually landed rather than only how confident they looked at the time.