2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Recap: A Year of Record-Breaking Storms
The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season has been an interesting one, with no landfalling hurricanes in the U.S., and Hurricane Melissa becoming the most intense landfalling hurricane in 90 years. FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross gives his expert analysis on the season as it comes to an end.
The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season has been an interesting one, with no landfalling hurricanes in the U.S., and Hurricane Melissa becoming the most intense landfalling hurricane in 90 years. FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross gives his expert analysis on the season as it comes to an end.
Season Statistics and Records
With just over a week left of the 2025 hurricane season and no more tropical activity expected before then, hurricane experts are taking a look back on the season’s record-breaking impacts. FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross and Phil Klotzbach, senior research scientist for the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, gave their insight into the season’s statistics, including how it shaped up compared to early-season predictions.
Prior to hurricane season, NOAA and CSU gave their predictions for the Atlantic Hurricane Season.
2025 Hurricane Season Statistic Comparison
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The season produced 13 named storms, with five hurricanes and four storms marked Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
No hurricanes made landfall in the U.S. this season, a rare occurrence in recent history.
The last hurricane season with no U.S. landfalling hurricanes was a decade ago in 2015.
Notable Storms and Impacts
Three hurricanes reached Category 5 strength this season.
Cateogry 5 hurricanes in 2025.
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Hurricanes Erin and Humberto reached wind speeds of 160 mph in August and September.
Hurricane Melissa rounded out the season as a deadly Category 5 hurricane in Jamaica with winds of 185 mph.
An aerial view shows destroyed buildings following the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Black River, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, on October 29, 2025. Hurricane Melissa bore down on the Bahamas October 29 after cutting a path of destruction through the Caribbean, leaving 30 people dead or missing in Haiti and parts of Jamaica and Cuba in ruins.
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An aerial view of damaged buildings around the St. John’s Anglican Church following the passage of Hurricane Melissa, in Black River, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica on October 29, 2025.
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A man looks at a fallen tree in St. Catherine, Jamaica, shortly before Hurricane Melissa made landfall on October 28, 2025.
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A store stands destroyed following the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Manchester, Jamaica, on October 28, 2025.
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Drone video of Hurricane Melissa Damage in Montego Bay, Jamaica
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Hurricane Melissa Damage
Melissa broke records, becoming the strongest hurricane to ever hit Jamaica and the most intense Atlantic landfalling hurricane in 90 years.
A record-breaking 252 mph wind reading measured by a dropsonde launched from an NOAA Hurricane Hunter airplane during a mission into Hurricane Melissa has been verified, making it the strongest wind hurricane ever recorded.
This satellite image shows Hurricane Melissa just south of Jamaica on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.
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Other Notable Storms
Hurricane Erin caused coastal flooding all up the East Coast in late August.
NOAA satellite imagery shows Hurricane Erin off the U.S. Atlantic Coast on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025.
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Humberto followed a similar path near the East Coast just over a month later, in late September, hot on the heels of Hurricane Gabrielle.
This is satellite imagery of Hurricane Humberto on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2025.
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Rough surf from Hurricane Humberto and Hurricane Im
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