🌍Global
Series · Climate & Perils
Cyclones
Every tropical cyclone since 1980, track by track: hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones across every basin, their landfalls and wind fields, and the storms that set the world's insurance benchmarks.
3 episodes
- Source
- NOAA IBTrACS (best track)
- Coverage
- 1980 to 2026, all basins
- Catalogue
- 4,937 storms
- Peril type
- Meteorological
- Updated
- Jun 2026
Last 12 months & record context · experienced risk
Storms · last 12 months
110
all basins · to Jun 2026
Strongest · last 12 months
165 kt
Melissa · Cat 5 · Oct 2025
Category 5s on record
202
1980–2026
Landfalls recorded
26,778
coastline crossings · all basins
Storms catalogued
4,937
1980–2026 · IBTrACS
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Episodes
1
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Nearly five thousand storm tracks mapped by intensity, season by season, with the global rhythm of accumulated cyclone energy underneath.
2
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The full best-track catalogue: name, season, basin, peak intensity, minimum pressure, energy and landfalls for every storm since 1980.
2005
NEW
The benchmark insurance catastrophe. A Category 5 Gulf hurricane whose storm surge broke New Orleans' levees, killing around 1,392 people and costing roughly 65 billion dollars insured.