HISTORICAL EVENT INTELLIGENCE · TROPICAL CYCLONE
Hurricane Data
Complete IBTrACS best tracks with quadrant wind radii, per-landfall intensity, and full lifecycle history — for hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones in every basin. Download a free sample or licence the archive.
Not a point on a map — a lifecycle
Every enhanced storm carries its complete best track. Super Typhoon Haiyan: 75 track points spanning 222 hours and 6,744 kilometres.
Position & time
Every track point at six-hour intervals, from formation through dissipation
Sustained wind & pressure
Knots and millibars per point — the full intensity curve, not just the peak
Quadrant wind radii
34 / 50 / 64-knot radii broken out NE, SE, SW, NW — storm asymmetry, not a circle
Storm nature & status
Tropical, subtropical, extratropical and agency status codes as the system evolves
Distance to land
Per-point distance to nearest land and to landfall — the approach, quantified
Landfall crossings
Time, position, wind speed, country and state for each individual crossing
Enhanced against IBTrACS v04r01 (NOAA/NCEI), the international best-track archive. Storm-level records also carry basin, season, duration, track length, peak category, and minimum central pressure.
Which landfall are you asking about?
The question a peak-intensity dataset cannot answer.
Super Typhoon Haiyan is recorded as a Category 5 storm — 170 knots, 895 millibars at peak. But it came ashore three separate times, and the intensity at each crossing is what mattered to the people there:
A dataset carrying only peak intensity would describe all three as the same Category 5 event. Ours carries the crossing — time, position, wind, country and state — so “what hit this location” has an answer. Storm-level magnitude remains peak Saffir-Simpson category; use the per-crossing wind for a specific place.
Start with a real sample
Five named 2020 Atlantic storms that crossed Florida — free, no signup.
Fay, Isaias, Marco, Sally and Eta — every 2020 storm whose track crossed the Florida region, with 323 lifecycle track points carrying position, wind, pressure and status at six-hour intervals, plus storm-level assessments covering peak intensity, duration and basin.
Related reading: how DisasterAWARE reconstructs historic hurricanes.
Hurricane data by place
Risk scores, current activity, and storm history for coastal locations.
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Two ways to get it
The same cyclone records, served for history or for right now.
Historical datasets
Bulk extracts filtered by basin, category, landfall country, or date range — CSV, GeoJSON, or NDJSON, by subscription or one-time purchase.
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Event Intelligence API →Hurricane Data — FAQ
Where can I download historical hurricane data?
A free tropical cyclone sample is available with no signup: all five 2020 Atlantic storms whose tracks crossed Florida — Fay, Isaias, Marco, Sally and Eta — with 323 lifecycle track points carrying position, wind, pressure and status at six-hour intervals. Full historical hurricane datasets are licensed through Historical Event Intelligence, filtered by basin, category, landfall country, or date range.
What does the hurricane dataset contain?
3,173 tropical cyclone records, of which 1,707 are enhanced against IBTrACS v04r01 (NOAA/NCEI). An enhanced storm carries its complete best track — Super Typhoon Haiyan has 75 track points across 222 hours — with position, sustained wind, central pressure, storm nature, and distance to land at each point, plus quadrant wind radii, derived landfall crossings, peak Saffir-Simpson category, and track length.
Does the data include wind radii?
Yes, and quadrant-resolved rather than as a single number. Track points carry radii at the 34-knot, 50-knot and 64-knot thresholds, each broken out by NE, SE, SW and NW quadrant — the asymmetry that determines which side of a storm does the damage. On Haiyan, 57 of 75 track points carry radii; coverage varies by storm and era.
Can I see the intensity at each landfall, not just peak intensity?
Yes, and this is the distinction most datasets lose. Each landfall crossing carries its own time, position, wind speed, and country and state code. Haiyan made three crossings: Leyte, Philippines at 165 knots, Capiz at 145 knots, and Quang Ninh, Vietnam at 60 knots. A dataset that reports only peak intensity would describe all three as a Category 5 event. Storm-level magnitude in our records is PEAK Saffir-Simpson category, so use the per-crossing wind when the question is about a specific place.
What are the limits of this data?
Three worth knowing. Enhancement covers IBTrACS-matched named storms, so unnamed and pre-1997 systems have less depth. 2025 JTWC-basin storms are provisional — 34-knot radii only, with positions and intensities subject to revision until final best tracks publish around December 2026. And landfall crossings are derived by point-in-polygon over the track, which is conservative: landfalls on islands smaller than the coastline dataset's resolution can be missed, and intensity reflects the nearest three-hourly track point.