Hurricanes

The 2015 season

109 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Tracks

The track of every 2015 storm in every basin on one map, colored by the strength it held at each point. Each storm is listed below with its own page.

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Deaths and damage

5 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 191 people in all, and 2 as having done damage, $660 million of it.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

12 storms, 11 at tropical storm strength, 4 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 61.8.

Eastern Pacific

30 storms, 26 at tropical storm strength, 17 hurricanes, 11 major; accumulated cyclone energy 329.6.

Western Pacific

30 storms, 27 at tropical storm strength, 19 typhoons, 16 major; accumulated cyclone energy 421.8.

North Indian

12 storms, 5 at tropical storm strength, 2 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 37.5.

South Indian

16 storms, 16 at tropical storm strength, 8 at hurricane force, 5 major; accumulated cyclone energy 123.0.

South Pacific

9 storms, 9 at tropical storm strength, 5 at hurricane force, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 85.2.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.