Puerto Rico

Storms in Puerto Rico in 2017

222 events in 48 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Puerto Rico in 2017, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Puerto Rico in 2017 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The year

Events
222
Deaths
25
Injuries
0
Damage
$19 billion
Episodes
48

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Flash Flood13010$763 million
Flood3500$10,000
Heavy Rain2000
Hurricane (Typhoon)11200$18 billion
Thunderstorm Wind700$10,000
Funnel Cloud700
Rip Current430
Coastal Flood300$500
Hail200
High Surf100$1.0 million
Tornado100
Lightning110

Every episode, month by month

January 2017

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March 2017

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May 2017

June 2017

July 2017

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September 2017

October 2017

November 2017

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.