Hurricane Milton
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $34 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($34 billion at the time) and 32 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 7 most significant tropical cyclone episodes filed in these dates, colored by kind.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Losses, 2024 dollars
- $34 billion
- Losses at the time
- $34 billion
- Deaths
- 32
The losses and deaths are NCEI’s, counting everything the disaster did. The episodes below are only what the Weather Service filed in its Storm Events record, which counts damage differently and often not at all, so the two never add up and are shown apart.
By state, as filed
Episode by episode
- Tornado and Tropical Storm in Florida, October 8 to 10, 2024Hurricane Milton moved northeast across the eastern Gulf of Mexico, gradually weakening from category 5 to category 4 strength while passing, at the closest approach, about 180 statue miles to the northwest of Key West on the afternoon of October 9, 2024.
- Hurricane and Tropical Storm in Florida, October 9 to 10, 2024A tropical disturbance over the southwest Gulf of Mexico quickly developed into Tropical Storm |Milton on Saturday, October 5th. Milton then moved slowly east-southeastward, strengthening into a |hurricane the following day.
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Florida, October 9 to 10, 2024Hurricane Milton became a Category 5 hurricane in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico on Monday, October 7th about 735 miles SW of Tampa while moving east-southeast, then turned east and northeast on Tuesday, October 8th while maintaining Category 4 and 5 strength.
- Hurricane and Tornadoes in Florida, October 9 to 10, 2024Hurricane Milton made landfall along the west-central Florida coast near Siesta Key at 7:30 PM EST on October 9th as a major, Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph and a minimum pressure of 954 mb.
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Florida, October 9 to 10, 2024Hurricane Milton moved ashore the west-central Florida coast as a category 3 hurricane on Oct 9 around 1930EST.
- Tropical Storm in Florida, October 9 to 10, 2024Major Hurricane Milton moved across the Florida peninsula and brought fringe impacts across portions of the coastal big bend with winds to tropical storm force. Rainfall amounts were less than three inches, and surge was negligible.
- Tropical Storm in Georgia, October 10, 2024A tropical disturbance over the southwest Gulf of Mexico quickly developed into Tropical Storm |Milton on Saturday, October 5th. Milton then moved slowly east-southeastward, strengthening into a |hurricane the following day.
More
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Sources
NOAA NCEI, U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2025), https://doi.org/10.25921/stkw-7w73, and the Storm Events Database for the episodes.